Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?

[Walter Bright]

On 3/29/2021 2:05 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Monday, 29 March 2021 at 20:00:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> D's integral promotion rules (bytes and shorts are promoted to ints before 
>> doing arithmetic) get rid of the bulk of likely overflows. (It's ironic that 
>> the integral promotion rules are much maligned and considered a mistake, I 
>> don't share that opinion, and this is one of the reasons why.)
> 
> Well...sometimes they do:
> 
>     auto result = int.max + int.max;
>     writeln(typeof(result).stringof); // int
>     writeln(result); // -2

I wrote "the bulk of", not "all"


> The main issue with D's integer promotion rules is that they're inconsistent. 
> Sometimes truncating the result of an expression requires an explicit cast, and 
> sometimes it doesn't.

Without an example, I don't know what you mean.