On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 05:05:59 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 10:34 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > I even appreciate breakages that eventually force me to write more
> >
> > readable code! A not-so-recent example:
> > /* Used to work, oh, I forget which version now, but it used to
> >
> > * work: */
> >
> > MyType* ptr = ...;
> > if (someCondition && ptr) { ... }
> >
> > After upgrading the compiler, I get a warning that using a pointer as a
> > condition is deprecated. At first I was mildly annoyed... but then to
> >
> > make the warning go away, I wrote this instead:
> > /* Look, ma! Self-documenting, readable code! */
> > MyType* ptr = ...;
> > if (someCondition && ptr !is null) { ... }
>
> Can you show an example please. I don't see this being required by
> 2.074.0 (compiled with -w -de).
I think that that's the one that Andrei and Vladimir didn't like, because
they actually used the conversion to bool correctly in their code a bunch
(whereas most everyone else thought that it was too error prone), and the
deprecation ended up being removed.
- Jonathan M Davis
