On Jan 21, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Yeah, I was mostly responding to your earlier comment that casting didn't 
>> work for you. If you really wanted to cast it would be to ptrdiff_t anyway.
>> I agree that there's a more fundamental problem though. Weren't we going to 
>> make implicit narrowing conversions an error?  I know it isn't in the spirit 
>> of c, but c allows all sorts of horrible nonsense.
> 
> Implicit narrowing conversions are already disabled. But code involving cast 
> is explicit.

Sure, but if abs() took an int or long then it wouldn't compile without a cast, 
right?
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