Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, February 05, 2018 15:27:45 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:56:33PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> > The idea is a byte can be implicitly converted to a dchar, [...]
>
> This is the root of the problem.  Character types should never have been
> implicitly convertible to/from arithmetic integral types in the first
> place.

+1

Occasionally, it's useful, but in most cases, it just causes bugs -
especially when you consider stuff like appending to a string.

- Jonathan M Davis