...In D things like overloading and implicit conversions would probably make it too confusing to...

...types, but then, type checking failing implicit conversions won't terminate anyway).

But note that...

...the type to account for castless implicit conversions.  e2ir uses if/else when it should...

...insists on complaining about a lot of conversions to bool - particularly when returning. It doesn...

...would it be possible to add implicit conversions for these types in the library?

Using...

...might want to be careful with implicit conversions to immutable based on allocation method, which...

...that cause bugs because of such implicit conversions. I would strongly argue that the case...

...that cause bugs because of such implicit conversions. I would strongly argue that the case...

...approach now.

In general, I think implicit conversions of any kind are a misfeature, but...

...PDT ---
Usually I prefer to avoid implicit conversions in a language, but in Phobos I...