The cast(signed), cast(unsigned) feature proposal

Mrzlga bulletproofchest at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 19:18:07 PDT 2013


I don't know the story of how D resolved to not provide 'ulong' 
and 'unsigned long' as equivalent, but I do understand the 
motivation to keep things short and standard, with 
1-word-per-basic-type.

I should say one thing though,

In C / C++:

unsigned x = f();   // this was traumatic. "unsigned" was an 
actual type itself, not just a type qualifier.


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