On Friday, December 23, 2011 17:19:26 bearophile wrote: > Derek Parnell: > > I'm with Don on this one because a boolean and an integer are not the > > same concept, and even though many programming languages implement > > booleans using integers, it still doesn't make them the same thing. > > D doesn't implement booleans with integers, D has a boolean type. But D > allows bools to implicitly cast to ints/longs.
I'd actually argue that that's a mistake. Implicitly converting an int to a bool is one thing - that's useful in conditional expressions - but converting from bool to int is something else entirely. I see no reason to expand that problem into BigInt. _int_ shouldn't have it, let alone BigInt. - Jonathan M Davis
