Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl]

On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 01:06:42 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 February 2018 at 00:24:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I really like your .nx idea!  It neatly sidesteps the 
>> nonsensical mandatory casts and on top of that documents 
>> intent (the .nx being a telltale sign of truncation -- much 
>> better than arbitrary implicit rules).
[...]
> Yeah, it's just a thin wrapper. I implemented just enough to 
> cover my use cases but just in case it's useful to you or 
> someone else, here goes my implementation...

Very cool! Much better than implementing new types.
Just

>     auto opBinary(string op, U)(NX!U rhs)
>     {
>         static if(rhs.value.sizeof > value.sizeof)
>             return mixin("rhs " ~ op ~  " value");

That won't do anything good for operators that are NOT commutative
(like -, ^^, <<, >>, %, /, ...)
Seems you don't use other things than +, *, &, | and ^, do you?