On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 17:24:50 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:10:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
I have yet to see a single case of "needing" boolean versions
that could not be refactored into something much more readable
and maintainable that did not use such.
and i have yet to see such cases for multiplication operator.
it's cryptic, it's hard to read, it looks like line noise.
isn't this clear and readable?
a = 5.mul(12);
and now see the stupid line noise, introduced by "*":
a = 5*12;
:)
Good use-cases for boolean overloads in addition to DSLs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-valued_logic
etc...
Although I think it might be more readable to have "and", "or"
etc as operators. This is actually allowed in C++:
"a && b" <=> "a and b"…
