On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 16:54:29 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote: > Cool. So why it that not used in std.math.abs? http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8666 Andrei's comment sums it up pretty much. AFAIK there may also be some portability considertaions when performing casts.