Is there any reason why arithmetic operation on shorts and bytes return int?

[d coder]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:23 PM, monarch_dodra <monarchdodra at gmail.com>wrote:

> D's stance regarding integer operations is "if it compiles, it creates the
> same output as in C".
>

Thanks Monarch. So it is a gotcha we inherit from C. :-)

Regards
- Puneet
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