On Sunday, 18 February 2018 at 19:26:43 UTC, Manu wrote:
The 'solution' so add cast(int) and then cast back is not okay.
I have code
that does a lot of work on bytes/shorts (colour components are
small
integers that receive a lot of maths), and most lines get 3-4
times longer
because of these casts...
I can't accept that.
If change the behaviour (is done), then just let the code be
broken! Emitting these terrible noises, and encouraging people
to make their code even noisier than the compiler output is
much worse than broken code.
Silently breaking code by changing language semantics is not an
option; we do that accidentally sometimes and it makes upgrading
to a newer compiler very very hard on large codebases. Let's
cherish the few users of D in production code. The deprecation
messages are annoying perhaps, but necessary.
There are hundreds of lines I need to molest to make the
compiler shut up. I won't type another line of code on my
colour library until this noise is gone... I will not maintain
it. I am emotionally incapable of assaulting my code with those
casts.
Using the `-transition=intpromote` compile flag is no option for
you?
- Johan
