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

[user1234]

On Thursday, 19 May 2022 at 14:33:14 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> 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

if you use bool as integer types in LLVM

    true + true

overflows  and you basically get 0 because only 1 bit is read.