int opEquals(Object), and other legacy ints

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Fri Jul 21 01:36:50 PDT 2006


Stewart Gordon wrote:
> 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.

They are typed as returning int for efficiency reasons. These functions 
often appear in performance critical loops, where an extra instruction 
or two makes a difference.



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