Implicit enum conversions are a stupid PITA

[Nick Sabalausky]

"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message 
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> Nick Sabalausky:
>> I fear it's probably too late for that for D, but I do like it very much. 
>> If
>> I ever make a C-style langauge myself, I'll definitely consider something
>> like that.
>
> Adding to dmd a few warnings activated by a compiler switch that help 
> avoid bugs in porting C->D2 is an additive change, it's fully backwards 
> compatible, so it can be added with no problems, if there's desire and 
> time to implement it.
>

My understanding of the orignal suggestion was to have those optional 
warnings for the purpose of freeing the rest of D's design from the "C code 
must behave the same or error" restriction. I'd love for that to happen, I'm 
just doubtful that it would, that's all.