Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Tue Feb 6 06:13:30 UTC 2018


On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 02:45:45AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 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

+1. Couldn't have said it better! :-D


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