dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jul 6 03:13:45 PDT 2009
Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:11:26 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>> I'm struggling to see why the compiler cannot just disallow any
>>> signed<->unsigned implicit conversion? Is it a matter of backward
>>> compatibility again?
>> What's the signed-ness of 5?
>
> Positive. A positive number can be assigned to an 'int' if there is no size
> issue.
It can also be an unsigned.
> What's the problem that I'm obviously missing?
>
>> When you index a pointer, is the index signed or unsigned?
>
> An index can be either. What's the problem here?
auto x = p1 - p2;
What's the type of x?
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