On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 03:52:10PM +0000, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 7 June 2018 at 15:18:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 01:42:17PM +0000, Basile B. via Digitalmars-d > > wrote: > > > [...] > > [...] > > > > You're on the right track. Now all you have to do is to add operator > > overloading to make the wrapper type infectious, and a convenience > > function that can be easily typed, and you get: > > > > [...] > > Yeah nice, but it can be more simply used _just_ when the unary > operator would lead to the message (with ctor: ~SomeType(...).
The same deprecation message appears when doing simple arithmetic with narrow int types, like `byte b = cast(byte) 10 + cast(byte) 20;`. The .np wrapper gets rid of all that, with the added bonus of documenting the programmer's intent in the code. T -- English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess, though in the nicest of all possible ways. -- Larry Wall
