On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 11:51:04 UTC, ketmar wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:57:19 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
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"…
i prefer that to "&&" and "||", tbh, not because i have
pascal/oberon background, but 'cause it's harder to make a
typo. "|" is binary, "or" is logic. simple and easy.
Yes, there is something clean looking about "and"/"or", in my
toying with syntaxes I've found that sigils somehow more easily
are perceived as noise than words.
It is a very different balance to get right as you add more
features.
p.s. and i hate that "true" converts to "1". in many forth
systems "true" is "-1", and it's way better. `a&cast(int)true`
actually works for the most widely used case (when a.sizeof <=
int.sizeof), for examplt.
I'm all for very strict typing, but converting true to int is by
mathematical convention done to 1. On some CPUs it is also the
hardware value. *shrugs*
