D arithmetic problem

[Tim Matthews]

davidl wrote:

> I mean the first behavior can cause problems.

Ohh sorry.

> I doubt any coder would 
> try to get that result by writing that piece of code. I ported some C# 
> source to D, and I got this semantic different issue.
> 

  It is probably mostly used for dealing with binary data but D has no 
other way of specifying a number that is only 1 byte except the char but 
that would be a misuse of the type system unless ported from c/c++. Just 
a few gotchas off the top of my head:

D     C#
------------
ubyte   Byte
byte    SByte
wchar   Char