DMD 1.019 and 2.003 releases

[Derek Parnell]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:25:31 -0700, James Dennett wrote:

> BCS wrote:
>> Reply to Derek,
>> 
>>> Are you serious??? Why are we allowed to do mathematics with
>>> characters?
>>>
>> 
>> I have done this a few times
>> 
>> char c;
>> int v = (c - '0')
> 
> Perfectly reasonable, as is character +/- integer, but
> character + character is nonsense, just as it makes sense
> to subtract two points yielding a vector, or add a vector
> to a point (yielding a point) but no sense to "add" two
> points in a mere affine space.

I'm sorry. I am a bit of a pedantic bastard at times. 

I use ...

 char c;
 int v = (cast(int)c - '0')

To me it the same as assuming that boolean values are integers.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
24/07/2007 3:13:04 PM