On Sunday, August 14, 2016 14:35:49 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 8/14/16 2:03 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > On 14/08/16 17:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> On 08/14/2016 01:18 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > >>> I must confess that I have never heard of this rule in C before > >>> encountering it in D. > >> > >> Which rule? > > > > The rule that says "ubyte + ubyte = uint". > > That will not happen. It would break tons of code in subtle ways. You > are a competent engineer so you know better than asking for it.
No offense, but that comes across as pretty condescending. I agree that changing the integer promotion rules would be very risky, but that's the sort of response that seems more likely to offend than to educate or convince. - Jonathan M Davis