implicit ubyte casting

[Don]

Saaa wrote:
> Jeremie Pelletier wrote
>> Saaa wrote:
>>> I think is very bug-prone, isn't it obvious iub should be -5?
>>>
>>> ubyte ub = 5;
>>> int iub = -ub; // iub now is 251
>>>
>>> What is the reasoning to do it this way?
>> Minus toggles the most significant bit, be it on a signed or unsigned 
>> type. When converting it to an int, the byte being signed or unsigned does 
>> make a difference: when unsigned the number is copied as is, when signed 
>> the most significant bit (bit 7) is shifted to the most significant bit of 
>> the int (bit 31).
>>
>> Its therefore pretty standard logic, no warning is given since the entire 
>> ubyte range fits within an int
>>
>> Jeremie
> Thanks, but it is not that I do not know how it occurs more that
> I should have asked whether people use this kind of logic.
> For me it resulted in annoying bug like this:
> for(int i = nloop;i<10;i++);//ubyte nloop is created quite a few lines 
> above.

This has been discussed before, and it really should be an error.
It's reasonable to implicitly cast between integral types of different 
size, and also signed<->unsigned, but performing both within the same 
expression is almost always a bug. It should not be possible without an 
explicit cast.