DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

[Walter Bright]

On 11/12/2018 2:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> *sigh* Well, I guess that's the core issue right there. A lot of us would
> strongly disagree with the idea that bool is an integral type and consider
> code that treats it as such as inviting bugs.

In my college daze I was learning programming alongside designing and building 
digital circuits, and later software for FPGAs and PLDs (ABEL). The notions of 
True, T, 1, !0 (from C and Asm), and +5V are all completely interchangeable in 
my mind.

I once worked with software that defined true as 0 and false as 1, and it was 
like being in London where all your intuition about cars is wrong. (I'd look to 
the left when stepping into the street, just to get nearly smacked by a car 
coming from the right.)