[Issue 10999] Limited type matching

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10999


Maxim Fomin <maxim at maxim-fomin.ru> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Maxim Fomin <maxim at maxim-fomin.ru> 2013-09-10 08:24:57 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
>
> I don't like the idea of an implicit cast from ushort[2] to short[2] on the
> basis of type safety, despite the current design breaks symmetry a little.
> Sometimes breaking the symmetry is acceptable if it increases safety.
> 

Reinterpreting short as ushort has nothing to do with type safety - you cannot
corrupt anything, you cannot even get wrong value, like in case of
dchar<-->long (not all binary values are valid UTF characters).

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