On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Lawrence Crowl <cr...@google.com> wrote:
> On 8/7/12, Mike Stump <mikest...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Aug 7, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Lawrence Crowl wrote:
>> > Hm.  There seems to be significant opinion that there should not be any
>> > implicit conversions.  I am okay with operations as above, but would like
>> > to hear the opinions of others.
>>
>> If there is an agreed upon and expected semantic, having them are useful.
>> In the wide-int world, which replaces double_int, I think there is an
>> agreeable semantic and I think it is useful, so, I think we should plan on
>> having them, though, I'd be fine with punting their implementation until
>> such time as someone needs it.  If no one every needs the routine, I don't
>> see the harm in not implementing it.
>
> At present, there are no functions equivalent to (double_int + int), so
> there can be no expressions that need this overload.  I have no objection
> to adding such an overload, but if there are no objections, I would rather
> do it as a separate patch.

Sure.  It's just one of the possibilities to clean up existing code.

Richard.

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> Lawrence Crowl

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