DMD 0.148 release
Ivan Senji
ivan.senji_REMOVE_ at _THIS__gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 16:46:49 PST 2006
Georg Wrede wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>
>> Georg Wrede says...
>>
>>> Ivan Senji wrote:
>>>
>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ivan Senji wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>
This above looks cool.
>
>>>>>>> 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;
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>>
>> 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.
Funny thread.
>
> 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.
After all, what ever bizare variant of a bool gets implemented, it is
still out D's bool :)
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