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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:39:04AM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 10:19 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >This is cool, I've never thought of using alias this on a @property
> >function. I'll have to start using that in my code. :-)
> 
> That's actually why I wrote it - as a "template" for how to do
> similar user defined types.
[...]

I'm so impressed by this trick that I decided to do a writeup of it on
the wiki:

	http://wiki.dlang.org/Implicit_conversions_in_user_types


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