Should you be able to initialize a float with a char?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/19/22 12:35 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/18/2022 5:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> But I have little hope for it, as Walter treats a boolean as an integer.
> 
> They *are* integers.
> 
> The APL language relies on bools being integers so conditional 
> operations can be carried out without branching :-)
> 
> I.e.
>      a = (b < c) ? 8 : 3;
> 
> becomes:
> 
>      a = 3 + (b < c) * 5;   // I know this is not APL syntax
> 
> That works in D, too!

I hope we are not depending on the type system to the degree where a 
bool must be an integer in order to have this kind of optimization.

-Steve