D dropped in favour of C# for PSP emulator

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Fri May 11 17:12:07 PDT 2012


On 05/12/2012 01:47 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 05/11/2012 02:45 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 05/11/2012 10:10 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> I use 'in' all the time, and I never even think about it returning a
>>> pointer. I just do:
>>>
>>> if(foo in bar)
>>>
>>> And it just works. So I don't see a particularly big problem here.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> bool fun(){ return foo in bar; }
>
> Isn't that an inconsistency in the language then? Are pointer values
> implicitly convertible to bool or not?
>
> Ali

if(condition) { ... }

is equivalent to

if(cast(bool)condition) { ... }

i.e. this conversion is 'explicit'.


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