BigInt bool assign

[Derek]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:42:24 +1100, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:

> Here I ask for opinions about a small enhancement request about BigInt  
> that Don has refused ...

I'm with Don on this one because a boolean and an integer are not the same  
concept, and even though many programming languages implement booleans  
using integers, it still doesn't make them the same thing.

Using booleans as implicit integers can be seen as laziness (i.e. poor  
documentation of coder's intent) or a legitimate mistake (i.e  
unintentional usage by coder). By insisting that an explicit cast must be  
used when one wants a boolean to behave as an integer allows the coder's  
intent to become more apparent when reading their source code. This has  
nothing to do with machine code generation, just source code legibility.


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia