Matthew: Yes

Matthew wrote:

>Matthew: Yes
>

Cast on everything be mandatory?  Details, sorry I missed the discussion on this.

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/

"J Anderson" <REMOVEanderson@badmama.com.au> wrote in message news:c39hva$1m1u$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Matthew wrote:
>
> >Matthew: Yes
> >
>
> Cast on everything be mandatory?

Anytime a cast is used, it should be via the cast operator, rather than a C-style cast.

It doesn't mean that all implicit conversions should be given a cast. That's another debate entirely.

>  Details, sorry I missed the discussion
> on this.

Haven't time to summarise, but there're lots of recent posts.

Matthew wrote:
> Matthew: Yes

cast(X)x good
(X)x not.

Yes.

 -- andy

Chris S. -- Yes!

Matthew wrote:
> Matthew: Yes

Well, yes, but -- "Oh no! It'll make porting from C more difficult!"
It seems to me that this is another case where Walter would prefer to leave in a
flaw from C -- rather than making D the best language it can be.

In article <c39n7m$1uqk$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andy Friesen says...
>
>Matthew wrote:
>> Matthew: Yes
>
>cast(X)x good
>(X)x not.
>
>Yes.
>
>  -- andy

"Juan C" <Juan_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:c39vkk$2fof$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Well, yes, but -- "Oh no! It'll make porting from C more difficult!"

In this case that "more difficult" is a good thing!

> It seems to me that this is another case where Walter would prefer to
leave in a
> flaw from C -- rather than making D the best language it can be.
>
> In article <c39n7m$1uqk$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Andy Friesen says...
> >
> >Matthew wrote:
> >> Matthew: Yes
> >
> >cast(X)x good
> >(X)x not.
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >  -- andy
>
>

Juan C wrote:
> Well, yes, but -- "Oh no! It'll make porting from C more difficult!"
> It seems to me that this is another case where Walter would prefer to leave in a
> flaw from C -- rather than making D the best language it can be.
> 

How about making it a deprecated feature, so you have to pass -d to the command line for it to compile?

-- 
Christopher E. Miller

I could live with that, but I reckon it'll just smell like a warning by another name to big-W

"Vathix" <vathix@dprogramming.com> wrote in message news:c3a43k$2ocm$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Juan C wrote:
> > Well, yes, but -- "Oh no! It'll make porting from C more difficult!" It seems to me that this is another case where Walter would prefer to
leave in a
> > flaw from C -- rather than making D the best language it can be.
> >
>
> How about making it a deprecated feature, so you have to pass -d to the command line for it to compile?
>
> -- 
> Christopher E. Miller

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:18:00 -0000, Matthew <matthew@stlsoft.org> wrote:

> Matthew: Yes

Andrew: Yes!
Vathix's deprecated (-d) suggestion may warrant a second look! However, I don't think it necessary.