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[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026 at 05:01:10PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/19/2026 2:25 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
> > Convenience?  Better than Pascal?  Hardly.  As things stand, you
> > have to sprinkle casts everywhere in your D code anyway, if you
> > happen to work with narrow integers.  Not much better than Pascal.
> 
> You may be using a modern Pascal.
[...]

I don't actually use any Pascal (I dislike it for pretty much the same
reasons as yours).  My point is that current D integer promotion rules
make narrow ints a royal pain to work with.  A pain on the level of
working with casts in Pascal.

For example:

```d
ubyte x;
x++;			// OK
x += 1;			// OK
x = x + 1;		// NG (WAT?)
x = cast(ubyte)(x + 1);	// Pascal-level of annoyance
```

And this is just a trivial example.  When you have a complex expression
involving narrow ints, the level of annoyance quickly becomes
unbearable.


T

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