[OT] The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

[Nick Treleaven]

On Friday, 18 February 2022 at 09:27:08 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> We need an error, not an implicit conversion. I expect you to 
> say that will force users to cast, which can introduce bugs if 
> the source type changes.

In fact, a cast that changes both the integer size and the 
signedness at the same time could be made an error as well.

> The solution to that is to encourage using e.g. std.conv.signed:
> https://dlang.org/library/std/conv/signed.html

Of course, these would be easier to use if they were in object.d.