Why does this not work?

[flamencofantasy via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Because of overflow.



On Wednesday, 17 September 2014 at 13:36:42 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
wrote:
> On 17/09/14 16:32, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:20:13 +0000
>> Shachar via Digitalmars-d-learn 
>> <digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  From http://dlang.org/type, under Usual Arithmetic 
>>> Conversions:
>>> 4. Else the integer promotions are done on each operand, 
>>> followed
>>> by:
>>>      1. If both are the same type, no more conversions are 
>>> done.
>> it's bug in specs, i believe, 'cause compiler promotes smaller 
>> types to
>> int/uint.
>>
>
> I don't understand. Why is this behavior preferrable to the one 
> outlined by the specs?
>
> Thanks,
> Shachar