On Saturday, 25 January 2014 at 18:53:29 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Of course it does. It was the point of my post. It's just that
the type is surprising from a basic arithmetic viewpoint.
Yes, I agree. I think it is messy to have implicit promotion of
unsigned values. For signed ints you get sign-expansion, so they
are less problematic.
If the programmer does not care about bit-patterns he probably
just uses regular ints anyway, so why promote when it create bugs
that are hard to track down?
