On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:50:15 +1100, Timon Gehr <[email protected]> wrote:
Although BOOL is typed as 'int', it really has the semantics of 'bool'.
We have an example of this in D1's opEquals().
I think this is reason why implicit conversion bool -> int exists.
It exists because it is handy and makes sense. Would you also want to
ban implicit short -> int conversion?
A 'short' is a type of integer, an 'int' is a type of integer, but a
'bool' is NOT a type of integer.
One can do arithmetic with two integers but what does 'TRUTH * TRUTH'
mean? Or what does 'FALSEHOOD - TRUTH' mean?
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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
