1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Rob T]

On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 19:37:48 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> The main place where casting would be annoying - if conditions 
> and loop
> conditions - already insert an explicit cast underneat the hood.

IMO it still makes no sense to have the implicit casting done in 
conditional statements because it is not obvious why a given 
conditional should treat a zero differently than all other 
values. However at this stage retaining that old convention is 
perhaps unavoidable.

At the very least, D should be minimizing the potential for 
programmers falling into the traps caused by non-intuitive 
implicit casting. In the case of bool, there's no obvious 
relationship with the int data type, so let's get rid of that 
arbitrary association, make casting explicit, and move on.

--rt