Should you be able to initialize a float with a char?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/19/2022 1:05 AM, bauss wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 May 2022 at 04:10:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with:
>>
>>     if ('A' <= c && c <= 'Z')
>>         c = c | 0x20;
>>
> 
> There is, this assumes that the character is ascii and not unicode.

It does not assume it, it tests for if it would be valid.


> What about say 'Å' -> 'å'?
> 
> It won't work for that.

I know. And for many applications (like dev tools), it is fine.