On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 10:05:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
*sigh* Well, I guess that's the core issue right there. A lot
of us would strongly disagree with the idea that bool is an
integral type and consider code that treats it as such as
inviting bugs. We _want_ bool to be considered as being
completely distinct from integer types. The fact that you can
ever pass 0 or 1 to a function that accepts bool without a cast
is a problem in and of itself. But it doesn't really surprise
me that Walter doesn't agree on that point, since he's never
agreed on that point, though I was hoping that this DIP was
convincing enough, and its failure is certainly disappointing.
I'm at a loss to see any significant advantage to having bool as
a part of the language itself if it isn't deliberately isolated
from `integral types`.
