On 8/14/16 11:40 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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.
Apologies for the possible offensive interpretation. My statement should
be taken at face value - it is indeed not difficult for a programmer to
project that changing a fundamental operator typing rule has wide
ripples. My larger point is that there's a clear distinction among
Shachar's list items: some are things we can work on, and some aren't.
Putting them together dilutes the positive impact of the list. -- Andrei
