int opEquals(Object), and other legacy ints
Stewart Gordon
smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 20 12:07:53 PDT 2006
There seem to be a number of leftovers from before we had a bool type,
and many people were using the int type to pass booleans around.
The most obvious is int opEquals(Object) defined in the Object class.
Changing this'll break a considerable amount of existing code - but then
again, the 0.163 change of making imports private by default has done
this already.
But there are many functions in Phobos that can be cleaned up a bit
without doing much harm. Just to name a few....
std.string.iswhite
std.string.inPattern
std.ctype.isalnum (indeed, most of the functions in std.ctype)
std.file.exists
std.file.isfile
std.file.isdir
std.intrinsic.bt
std.intrinsic.btc
std.intrinsic.btr
std.intrinsic.bts
std.math.isnan (and other is* functions)
std.math.signbit
Going through the other modules will probably reveal many more, but I
haven't checked.
Stewart.
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