unsigned policy (implicit conversions for complex?)

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:59:56 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> http://erdani.org/d-implicit-conversions.pdf

What is the justification for character types to be implicitly converted to
integer types? For the same reason that arithmetic with booleans is
meaningless, so is such operations on characters. 

  int x = 'a' + 'z'; // Is meaningless.
  int y = cast(int)'a' + cast(int)'z'; // Is now purposeful.

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8/02/2007 11:09:42 AM