On 11/19/2014 5:03 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
If this kind of unsafe mixing wasn't allowed, or required explict casts
(to signify "yes I know what I'm doing and I'm prepared to face the
consequences"), I suspect that bearophile would be much happier about
this issue. ;-)
Explicit casts are worse than the problem - they can easily cause bugs.
As for me personally, I like having a complete set of signed and unsigned
integral types at my disposal. It's like having a full set of wrenches that are
open end on one end and boxed on the other :-) Most of the time either end will
work, but sometimes only one will.
Now, if D were a non-systems language like Basic, Go or Java, unsigned types
could be reasonably dispensed with. But D is a systems programming language, and
it ought to have available types that match what the hardware supports.
