On Saturday, 5 June 2021 at 01:46:45 UTC, someone wrote:
What's the point of declaring, for instance ushort's if then
nothing will treat them as ushort's and I have to manually
cast() everything to ushort() all the time ?
Yeah, it totally sucks.
D inherited a silly rule from C - the promote rules actually come
from there - but then added a well-intentioned but pretty
annoying in practice rule that discarding bits from arithmetic
require an implicit cast. (Unless it is the bits over 32... then
who cares. lol)
The += operator is exempt from it so use it where you can. But
otherwise your only real hope is to do a user defined type with
op overloads and what an enormous hassle.
This design was a mistake.
