DMD can implicitly convert class pointer to the bool. Is it bug or terrible feature?
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Nov 24 10:23:53 PST 2013
On 11/24/2013 9:45 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Sorry, I misread the example - thought it's a function local variable. I'm not
> sure whether shadowing globals or members would be a good idea. gcc has a -W
> flag for that, and someone tried to turn it on at Facebook but with debatable
> results. We ended up not using that warning.
Shadowing globals is definitely a bad idea. Shadowing members, it's debatable.
In any case, I don't think it is some sort of terrible bug generator. In fact,
I'll often write:
struct S {
int m;
this(int m) { this.m = m; }
}
because I like to make it clear I am initializing m. I find code like this to be
unduly wretched:
struct S {
int m;
this(int _m) { m = _m; }
}
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