What is the reasoning behind the lack of conversions when passing parameters

[Walter Bright]

On 2/2/2024 10:42 PM, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 February 2024 at 03:19:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I tried to make overloading in D much simpler, but it's still overly complex.
> 
> It is apparent that it is overloading and `alias this` in its present form that 
> are the mistakes. Not the initialization mechanism.
> 
> Without that pair of mistakes, having parameter passing being initialization 
> would be as simple as, well, initialization. Surely we don't think there's a 
> design problem with initialization implicitly calling constructors?

I agree it is in conflict with overloading. But overloading and alias this are 
very useful features. Language design is all about making tradeoffs.

It's like designing a house. Making the bathroom bigger means making the bedroom 
smaller.

P.S. Overloading is often used excessively, even in the DMD source code.