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

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On 2012-22-13 04:12, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, December 12, 2012 13:35:59 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/12/2012 10:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > If alias this isn't do an implict conversion, then there's a bug in  
>> alias
>> > this. That's how implict conversion is done in D, and it's the whole  
>> point
>> > of alias this.
>>
>> And it does, as I relied on this to do the halffloat implementation.
>
> Simen's example doesn't seem to work though, so he appears to have found  
> a
> bug. Certainly, I don't see anything wrong with it, but alias this  
> doesn't
> seem to work for it. Regardless, my point was that if there's a case  
> where
> alias this isn't doing an implicit conversion, then it's a bug, because  
> that's
> the whole reason that it exists.

So it is supposed to work? I've always thought this was a deliberate design
choice. I guess I'll file a bug, then. Here:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9147

Kenji, you here? :p

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Simen