On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

No worries there :-) I feel pretty dang strongly about this issue, from bad experience.

Even if a language behaves "wrong", it is still usable if it is predictable.

Agreed.

How about this.

1. Let "char" and "short" behave the C/C++ way. These can return integers. This will make C/C++ code work in D.

2. Make D "byte" operations return bytes. And create another type (named say dbyte or shortint) and make operations on the new type return shortints. This will make these types more usable in D code. Well we end up adding another keyword, but we shall get workable and safe 8-bit and 16-bit integrals.

Regards

- Puneet