1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[eles]

On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 14:28:59 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 08:03:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/25/2013 11:16 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>>> This "feature" never has been useful to me.
>>
>> It has been useful to me. So there!

Come on, characters are not an integral type, they are just an 
ordered and, for that reason, an indexed type. All the usual 
operations on characters apply to the index behnid (which is 
given by the ASCII/Unicode representation).

You are not adding characters, you are adding indices of those 
characters and so on. And you make a simple convention to always 
thing "character" for a givent (integer) index, since the index 
per se is of no much use without its equivalent representation 
from the ASCII table.

On the same grounds, one could index the values of bool form 4 to 
5 and assimilate false for 4 and true for 5, then go with the 
above convention.

There is a difference, however, between the bool and the char 
here: for the bool you want to go straight from the logical value 
to a conventional integral value, do not even think about some 
kind of tabular representation, while for the ASCII 
representation of char you seem to forget that such kind of a 
table exists in the first place.