== Quote from Marco Leise (marco.le...@gmx.de)'s article > Am 19.10.2011, 20:12 Uhr, schrieb dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com>: > > No. Something as simple as sqrt(2) must work at all costs, period. A > > language > > that adds a bunch of silly complications to something this simple is > > fundamentally > > broken. I don't remember your post on implicit preferred conversions, > > but IMHO > > implicit conversions of integer to double is a no-brainer. Requiring > > something > > this simple to be explicit is Java/Pascal-like overkill on explicitness. > Pascal (FreePascal 2.4.0) allows sqrt(2) just fine.
LOL and Pascal was my example of a bondage-and-discipline language. All the more reason why we need to allow it in D come Hell or high water.
