DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

[Isaac S.]

On Wednesday, 14 November 2018 at 03:02:48 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 11/13/2018 3:50 PM, Isaac S. wrote:
>> is asinine and ignorant.
>
> Some friendly advice - nobody is going to pay serious attention 
> to articles that sum up with such unprofessional statements. 
> Continuing the practice will just result in the moderators 
> removing them.

I'm sorry that it is unkind but I came to D because I found it to 
be an extremely well-designed language. Seeing something like 
10560 be declared as "correct" is really disheartening because 
it's _obviously_ a design flaw (and should thus be fixed).

Regardless of my unprofessional attitude (I do apologize; I 
normally try to be professional but something like this is really 
irritating): why should an enum not convert to its declared type, 
rather than blindly using its literal value. Just using the 
literal value discards the secondary-type information the 
programmer had given it.