October 12, 2017
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11352

Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang@jmdavisProg.com> changed:

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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Jonathan M Davis <issues.dlang@jmdavisProg.com> ---
This is just life with integral types - especially when they're the same size but have different signed-ness. If you want to convert to long from ulong and have it check for overflow, then use std.conv.to!long on the number before constructing a Duration from it. It's quite clear from the signature of dur and its aliases that it takes a long, not a ulong, and always checking for overflow would add overhead for something that happens very rarely. std.conv.to already makes it easy for the programmer to check if they care.

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