DMD 0.148 release
Georg Wrede
georg at nospam.org
Sun Feb 26 16:43:13 PST 2006
Tom wrote:
> Georg Wrede says...
>> Ivan Senji wrote:
>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>> Ivan Senji wrote:
>>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>>>> I think we've gotten it backwards here, so let's turn the table:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you give some example code and use cases where we absolutely
>>>>>> need your kind of booleans?
>>>
>>> Could it be that I missunderstood you? By your kind of booleans did you
>>> mean the true non-integer booleans? If so, that is what the example dow
>>> there is for: showing why we need real bools.
>>>
>>> And if I did missunderstand something I apologize (it's late).
>>
>> No problem. The way this whole thread is going, half the time everybody
>> is clueless. :-)
>> bool foo = 55 && 5000;
>
> Oh my God!
> Really I can't see yet why you don't like the pure bool. We should see an
> example of why pure bools would bother you so much.
In this post alone, there's a half dozen references to "my kind of bool"
or "your kind of bool", by various people.
Probably somebody should start making a table of their properties! :-)
And if they don't, we could always examine this thread later, and I bet
we could find one or two pairs of folks vehemently arguing, and it'd
turn out "their bools were the same", only they didn't notice.
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