OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[Isaac Gouy]

On Sunday, 16 December 2012 at 15:45:32 UTC, jerro wrote:
>> if, say, GDC was granted to come back in the shootout. Given 
>> it's now widely acknowledged (at least in the programming 
>> communities) to be one of the most promising languages 
>> around...
>
> And especially if you also consider the fact that there Clean 
> and ATS are in the shootout and I'm guessing that very few 
> people use those.


See

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/Why_did_D_leave_the_programming_language_shootout_and_will_it_return_144864.html#N144870