Andrei Alexandrescu:
How is this a response to what I wrote?
I have said that sometimes you want to use the safer types even in a place where you have said could use the primitive types.
And to take that to its logical conclusion, we don't want the defaults in the D language to cater to such applications.
Integral safety (and few other kinds of safeties) are useful even in software that's not high integrity :-)
Bye, bearophile