PROPOSAL: Implicit conversions of integer literals to floating point
so
so at so.do
Thu Dec 30 08:24:27 PST 2010
> This problem has already hit Phobos. We inserted a hack so that sqrt(2)
> will work. But exp(1) doesn't work.
> Note that the problems really arise because we've inherited C's rather
> cavalier approach to implicit conversion.
Classifying 2 as an int was a very wrong start.
This proposal reminds me my proposal on polysemous literals that i had a
hard time explaining. (Still, i am not sure if anyone got the point)
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