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

[d coder]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's now is safer than what you propose. You can always create your own
> data type that would automatically truncate result if you wish so.


:-)

I should not have used the word "safe" there. All I meant was "safer" than
C++ which allows implicit conversion form int to short and long to int.

Yes, I am now using my own User Type.

Regards
- Puneet
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