We should be extremely careful with implicit conversions. They can be useful, but it makes...

...bug?

Since alias this is for implicit conversions, it should be effective only when Base...

...B}
use alias this to enable implicit conversions:
    S to Concept!(B, S)
    Concept!(B...

...formats (notably Hadoop/Hive) which require extensive conversions string <-> integrals. I wrote folly's conv...

...file, and then do the byte-order conversions in the file-format-specific code.

Yes...

...0x0000000000b215ec in tree_ssa_strip_useless_type_conversions ()
#3  0x000000000082484d in gimplify_expr ()
#4  0x0000000000821bc4...

...work.

A lot of those other implicit conversions I do agree seem daunting. The naive...

...a modified compiler that accepts all these conversions, doesn't error on variable shadowing, and...

Turning implicit into explicit conversions.  A big one is 0 -> Loc(0). dinteger_t -> size...

...stack allocated classes, new keywords, narrowing integer conversions, 'virtual', pure virtual function syntax, macros as...