Preventing implicit conversion

[ixid via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 19:09:42 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 14:27:49 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> Is there an elegant way of avoiding implicit conversion to int 
>> when you're using shorter types?
>
> Only with library solution. Implicit conversions are built into 
> language.

Doesn't that seem rather limiting and unnecessary?