On Saturday, 22 July 2017 at 10:51:05 UTC, ketmar wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
2. Codify existing practice, since it has been that way
forever. Not matching C has caused problems, see 16997 and
17637. It may cause more serious silent problems for people
converting C code to D code.
i'd say "codify, and add warning". since i patched the warning
into the compiler, i have no more problems with the current
rules: compiler tells me about possible incompatibilities with
C, and i can either add `()` to silent the warning, or
explicitly cast to the type i want.
i think most other people will prefer to get warning instead of
code breakage too. at least i hope so. ;-)
Good luck adding a warning into DMD. After years there still
isn't a warning for unsigned/signed comparisons.
What code would break? Are there any examples of D code that
would break as a result of the change?
