version=D_16

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 13 July 2017 at 16:46:12 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
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> On D side the issue that remains is the ergonomics of having to 
> type cast(short) more frequently. I suppose that if this proves 
> too inconvenient we can just create a library type that avoids 
> this issue, right?

Yes. we could even make this type be recognized by the compiler 
such that it will perform the optimizations ;)