1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Walter Bright]

On 4/27/2013 2:58 PM, jerro wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote:
>>> If bools are 1 bit ints, then why do we have 'true' and 'false' as keywords?
>>
>> Because writing cast(bool)0 and cast(bool)1 is unappealing.
>
> I would expect boolean literals to be something like 0b and 1b, not true and
> false then.

To reiterate, history amply shows that if 'true' and 'false' are not there, then 
people will define them themselves, inconsistently, and the end result is not 
helpful to anybody.