Variant opArithmetic

[cal]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 19:02:33 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/18/12 1:36 PM, cal wrote:
>> Variant tries to mimic D's built-in rules for arithmetic 
>> conversions but:
>>
>> import std.variant, std.stdio;
>> void main()
>> {
>> auto v1 = Variant(4.5f);
>> auto v2 = Variant(3.5f);
>> writeln((v1+v2).type()); // double
>> }
>>
>> The reason is Variant doesn't try to convert to float in 
>> opArithmetic
>> (it's is easily fixed). But is it intentional?
>
> I wrote this:
>
>     writeln(typeof(4.5f + 3.5f).stringof);
>
> To my surprise, the reported type was float, not double. Well 
> that means it's a bug in Variant, could you please make a bug 
> report (and hopefully a pull request fixing it)?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Sure thing