The year is 2019

[Exil]

On Saturday, 27 July 2019 at 19:49:32 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 July 2019 at 18:50:16 UTC, Exil wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 July 2019 at 16:12:35 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 27 July 2019 at 09:04:45 UTC, Mike Franklin 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would be perfectly happy with `opImiplicitCast` or some 
>>>> way to have implicit constructors.  But Walter has already 
>>>> voiced his disapproval of that (See the comments in 
>>>> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/10161 for the 
>>>> disappointment), so our choices are getting slim.  I'm 
>>>> trying to find something he would be willing to approve. If 
>>>> you have any ideas, I'm all ears.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>
>>> We shouldn't let Walter disapproval effect us. If we think it 
>>> a really good idea then we should pursuit it.
>>>
>>> Walter thinks the opImplicitCast that we are proposing will 
>>> be the same thing as C++. It isn't. C++ genius "idea" is to 
>>> have implicit conversions opt-out rather then opt-in.
>>>
>>> -Alex
>>
>> I don't agree. C++ strings are a good source of how it can be 
>> misused.
>
> Any feature can be abused by a stubborn person. That is merely 
> a case of bad coding practice rather then the feature itself.

Not every feature can be abused. This one is far more easily 
abused than others, and people will use it for "convenience" as I 
have seen them complain about before. It makes it harder to read 
code, to maintain code. It is the feature itself. If you need to 
use it in such a small amount of code so that it isn't abused, 
then it isn't really something you need.