[bitc-dev] Bitc and Simd

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.org
Sat Aug 14 21:17:48 PDT 2010


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Ben Kloosterman <bklooste at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Is implicit conversions such a bad thing in general?
>

Yes. It essentially destroys the ability to do type inference. The only
places where BitC does implicit conversion is at copy boundaries, and there
only w.r.t. mutability. I'm actually surprised that we got away with that
much.


shap
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