On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 19:51:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/26/2013 7:36 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
Walter, you're completely missing the point.
I completely understand it is a perception problem. Some people
see bool as a 1 bit integer (including me). Some see bool as
something very distinct from integers (including you).
Don't be silly. You don't see them as 1 bit integer, as they
convert by comparing to 0 and not truncating.
What I find distressing about these kinds of threads is how
people dig in and so fortify their position on a rather trivial
matter and then it blows up into some do-or-die thing.
It is not like this issue is popping for the first time. When a
source of tension exists, any complaint about it can crystallize
easily.
