empty arrays and cast(bool): WAT

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/19/2012 06:15 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 04:01:45 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 02/19/2012 04:56 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 19 February 2012 at 03:33:14 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>>>> That would potentially break code.
>>>>
>>>> It would also potentially fix code.
>>>
>>> Well that's the stupidest thing I've read today. Can you point to people
>>> using it in the way that you expect? Besides which, that's just about
>>> the worst way to fix bugs in code is to change the language's behaviour.
>>>
>>
>> I was not being entirely serious here... Do you have any opinion about
>> the topic?
>
> I think it's too late to change the behaviour,

It is a good time to change the behavior: We are still in a stage where 
almost every release of the reference compiler breaks some code.

> and it's not too terrible, even if un-ideal.
>

It is completely useless. It should rather be disabled as bearophile 
suggests and then be re-enabled with the sane semantics after enough 
time has passed.