The year is 2019

[12345swordy]

On Saturday, 27 July 2019 at 09:04:45 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:

> I would be perfectly happy with `opImiplicitCast` or some way 
> to have implicit constructors.  But Walter has already voiced 
> his disapproval of that (See the comments in 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10161 for the 
> disappointment), so our choices are getting slim.  I'm trying 
> to find something he would be willing to approve. If you have 
> any ideas, I'm all ears.
>
> Mike

We shouldn't let Walter disapproval effect us. If we think it a 
really good idea then we should pursuit it.

Walter thinks the opImplicitCast that we are proposing will be 
the same thing as C++. It isn't. C++ genius "idea" is to have 
implicit conversions opt-out rather then opt-in.

-Alex