unsigned policy (implicit conversions for complex?)

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 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.

I agree. Those conversions are in there mostly for historical reasons.

Andrei