using a typedefed variable with library classes

[Christopher Wright]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> It's an implicit narrowing conversion -- that involves data loss. This 
> is a bug.

Actually, you said you had two methods, something like this:

void foo (byte i) {}
void foo (long i) {}
void main ()
{
     int a = 1;
     foo (a);
     byte b = a; // no casts
}

This example doesn't use typedefs but still complains about overloads. I 
find it odd that you can implicitly cast an arithmetic type of one width 
to another of a smaller width. I'm making a feature enhancement request 
for this.