DMD 0.149 release
Kyle Furlong
kylefurlong at gmail.com
Tue Mar 7 16:55:26 PST 2006
Georg Wrede wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> "Georg Wrede" <georg.wrede at nospam.org> wrote in message
>> news:440E1336.3050608 at nospam.org...
>>
>>> BTW, what does "Implicit casts of non-bool to bool disallowed" mean?
>>
>> It means you can no longer write
>>
>> bool x = 5;
>
> Shhhhhttt! Good-bye C/C++ folks!
>
> It's not like anybody would want to write exactly
>
> bool x = 5;
>
> but more like
>
> bool x = strcmp("foo", "bar");
> if (!x) { /* do stuff */ } // match
> else { /* call the cops! */ } // no match
>
> which, incidentally, is one of the more profound proposititions in any
> C-derived language.
>
> The Old School Boolean C Logic was a perfectly functioning Concept. This
> fact _alone_ was the reason "Bool" took so long to be "formally"
> introduced into either C or C++. No regular programmer ever needed Prude
> Bool, only the Superior Theoreticians Thought it Wise to force this upon
> the language. It was profoundly useful as-is, and didn't need any
> pimping. A language that purports to be "to-the-metal" just has to take
> into consideration the fundamentals of [digital] life. And processor
> physics. (Wanna abstract away that? Then go to Java or whatever.)
>
> The other night [in the D newsgroup, when it was getting hilarious] it
> dawned to me, that quite [too] many of the vocatious NG-members never
> had read their Boolean IT Fundamentals.
>
> Good Grief: "there's just too many instances in history where the
> illiterati have dictated the outcome of otherwise intellectual
> confrontations". Damn!!
>
> The ramifications of this (minor looking) modification are grave, I'm
> afraid.
>
> Now what happens to
>
> if (stcmp("foo", "bar")) {}
>
> ???
I suggest you read this : http://www.digitalmars.com/d/type.html before you make an ass of yourself. Oops, too late.
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