• bearophile (5/8) Dec 30 2010 It's a significant change. How much work does it need to create a compli...

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Don:

 Personally, I'd love to see implicit conversions int<->floating point 
 completely removed from the language. But I think there'd be an outcry 
 if that happened.

It's a significant change. How much work does it need to create a complied side
branch of DMD 2.051 with this difference? With this different version I see how
much code it breaks, how much work it needs to update the code, how many casts
I need to add to my code. This gives some a bit of usability data to decide if
this causes an outcry if it happens.

(Sorry for watering down your proposal a bit with this discussions, but I think
it's good to contextualize proposals in a wider frame, to show if more
general/better solutions are possible (often they aren't possible).)

Bye,
bearophile