Bug in D?!

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Mr. Pib wrote:

> Wow, that is pretty screwed up! I thought D was against implicit 
> conversions that might cause problems?  I'm passing an int and I should 
> be able to append an int without having to worry about the value of the 
> int. Instead D chose to do something very strange, awkward, and error 
> prone.

this is legacy we got from trying to be C-compatible (along with int/uint 
autoconversion, and some other things). i believe that initially it was 
done to allow something like `char c = 32;`, and now it is too late to 
change it, 'cause such change will break existing code (and we're trying to 
not break the code without a *very* strong reason, even if keeping old code 
working means keeping some old quirks).