On Saturday, 11 November 2017 at 14:54:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Saturday, November 11, 2017 13:40:23 Michael V. Franklin via
Digitalmars- d wrote:
What's the official word on this:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6404
Does it need a DIP?
If I revive it will it go anywhere?
What needs to be done to move it forward?
It probably needs a DIP, since it's a language change, and
based on what Walter has said in the past about this topic, I
don't know how convincible he his. I think that most everyone
else thought that it was terrible when code like this
auto foo(bool) {...}
auto foo(long) {...}
foo(1);
ends up with the bool overload being called, but Walter's
answer was just to add an int overload if you didn't want 1 to
call the bool overload.
Yeah, this is bad.
However, I’d hate to rewrite things like:
if (a & (flag1 | flag2))
to
if ((a & (flag1 | flag2)) != 0)
When the first is quite obvious.
