Preventing implicit conversion

[Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 5 November 2015 at 09:33:40 UTC, ixid wrote:

> In C++ I can add two shorts together without having to use a 
> cast to assign the result to one of the two shorts. It just 
> seems super clunky not to be able to do basic operations on 
> basic types without casts everywhere.

+1
If automatic shrink is droped from the C legacy stuff, so 
interger propagation should also be dropped (or changed to 
propagate no further than to the actual size of a type). D has a 
far better type system, throw away bad old C habits!

-> this would also make the defect comparison of signed to 
unsigned types visible for small types and hopefully force the 
introduction of the correct comparison!