Re: Is there any reason why arithmetic operation on shorts and bytes return int?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/11/12 11:36 AM, d coder wrote:

Thanks Everybody for responding. I have another query which is off-topic
but related.

Why is the following allowed in D?

long a;
int b;

b += a; // Allowed -- no explicit cast

RMW operations are allowed without a cast.

Andrei