Is there any reason why arithmetic operation on shorts and bytes return int?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/11/12 8:03 AM, d coder wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:23 PM, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com
> <mailto:monarchdodra at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     D's stance regarding integer operations is "if it compiles, it
>     creates the same output as in C".
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> Thanks Monarch. So it is a gotcha we inherit from C. :-)

No, it's a fix of a gotcha from C. The C code would just allow the 
assignment.

Andrei