Reddit: SafeD - The Safe Subset of D

[Walter Bright]

Charles D Hixson wrote:
> PPS:  When talking about casts or type conversions, please make it 
> explicit whether the same bit pattern is maintained. I often read those 
> descriptions, and realize that I can't figure out exactly what is 
> happening.  With C I was always certain that I was just telling the 
> compiler to think about the same piece of memory differently, and that 
> nothing actually changed.


int i = 3;
double d = (double)i;

changes the bit pattern in C (as well as in D)