On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 08:00:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/26/2013 12:07 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
Regarding bool type as integer type is C atavism and should be
abandoned.
There's a very loooong history of 0 being regarded as false and
1 as true - it goes well beyond C.
That is true, but even in theses elder languages, bool is handled
as a special case, and not as an regular integral type. For
instance, when integral conversion to smaller type is done by
applying a mask (or doing a modulo, this is the same thing in
this case) it is done by comparing to 0 to compare to bool.
