Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Timothee Cour]

I had filed that last week:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18346
Issue 18346 - implicit conversion from int to char in `"foo" ~ 255`
should be illegal

we should deprecate it.


On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via
Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2018 09:30 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> On 2/5/2018 3:18 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>
>>> The overloading rules are fine, but byte should not implicitly convert to
>>> char/dchar, and char should not implicitly convert to byte.
>>
>>
>> Maybe not, but casting back and forth between them is ugly.
>
>
> It *should* be ugly, it's conflating numerics with partial-characters.
>
> Which, depending on the situation, you should either A. not be doing at all,
> or B. Be really freaking explicit about the fact that "yes, I know I'm
> mixing numerics with partial-characters here and it's for this very good
> reason XYZ." This isn't the age of ASCII. I can see how it could've been a
> pain in ASCII-land, but D doesn't live there.