1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[kenji hara]

I filed the issue in bugzilla, and opened pull request to fix it.

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9999
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1942

Kenji Hara


2013/4/28 kenji hara <k.hara.pg at gmail.com>

> OK. I misunderstood.
>
> C does not allow function overloading, so same problem is not there.
> In C++,
>
> // test.cpp
> #include <stdio.h>
> void foo(bool) { printf("bool\n"); }
> void foo(long) { printf("long\n"); }
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> foo(false);  // matches bool version
> foo(true);   // matches bool version
>  foo(0);  // ambiguous
> foo(1);  // ambiguous
>  foo(2);  // ambiguous
> return 0;
> }
>
> The behavior is same with GCC 4.7.2 (using msys) and dmc.
>
> Walter, now I changed my opinion. It seems not correct that being regarded
> bool type as one of the integer.
> How about?
>
> Kenji Hara
>
> 2013/4/27 Minas Mina <minas_mina1990 at hotmail.co.uk>
>
>> On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 11:41:30 UTC, kenji hara wrote:
>>
>>> First, I can guess that why Walter disagree *fixing* this problem.
>>>
>>> http://dlang.org/overview.html
>>>
>>>> Major Design Goals of D
>>>> 9. Where D code looks the same as C code, have it either behave the same
>>>>
>>> or issue an error.
>>>
>>>
>> C doesn't have a bool type, so how can D behave the same?
>>
>
>
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