Preventing implicit conversion

[ixid via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 05:41:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 21:22:02 ixid via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 19:09:42 UTC, Maxim Fomin 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 14:27:49 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> >> Is there an elegant way of avoiding implicit conversion to 
>> >> int when you're using shorter types?
>> >
>> > Only with library solution. Implicit conversions are built 
>> > into language.
>>
>> Doesn't that seem rather limiting and unnecessary?
>
> Why? You can't affect what conversions do and don't work for 
> the built-in types in _any_ language that I've ever used, and 
> I've never heard of a language that allowed anything like that. 
> If you want different conversion rules, you need to create a 
> user-defined type that defines the conversions you want. That's 
> pretty normal.
>
> And AFAIK, there aren't very many folks trying to avoid the 
> built-in implicit conversions in D, particularly since D 
> eliminated the various implicit narrowing conversions that you 
> get in C/C++.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

In C++ I can add two shorts together without having to use a cast 
to assign the result to one of the two shorts. It just seems 
super clunky not to be able to do basic operations on basic types 
without casts everywhere.