Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 02:30:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Maybe not, but casting back and forth between them is ugly. 
> Pascal works this way, and it was one of the things I wound up 
> hating about Pascal, all those ORD and CHR casts.

It is a bit ironic hearing this from the guy who made a language 
where you have to cast a byte back to a byte! LOL