DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On Monday, 12 November 2018 at 17:49:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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> it's quite simple: they view a bool as an integral type with 
> two possible values, a `bit` if you like. As such, they prefer 
> to fit it into the existing scheme for integral types rather 
> than special-casing booleans as Mike proposed.

I can’t say I have a strong opinion on this, but possibly it 
would be right to have an integral “bit” type to differentiate it 
from the Boolean type, just like we have a “byte” type to 
differentiate it from “char”...