1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 08:00:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/26/2013 12:07 AM, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>> Regarding bool type as integer type is C atavism and should be 
>> abandoned.
>
> There's a very loooong history of 0 being regarded as false and 
> 1 as true - it goes well beyond C.
>

Assembly, PL/I, Algol, ...? Just asking as a language geek.

Personally, given my strong typing background, I dislike the 
automatic conversion to booleans.

Even my C code has explicit comparisons for NULL pointers, 
instead of relying in implicit conversions.

--
Paulo