1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Walter Bright]

On 4/26/2013 7:36 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> Walter, you're completely missing the point.

I completely understand it is a perception problem. Some people see bool as a 1 
bit integer (including me). Some see bool as something very distinct from 
integers (including you).

An analogous issue comes up here now and then about 'char' and characters. Are 
chars an 8 byte integer, or are they characters, or are they octets, or should 
access only be allowed to multibyte characters as an indivisible code point? 
(This comes up in regards to indexing char[].)


> The point is that people can live with the consequences of your short/long
> example, but they can't do the same with Andrej's bool/long example.
> No matter how right you are, if you keep insisting your way is correct, D will
> continue never becoming popular because people will continue finding it hard to
> use.

What I find distressing about these kinds of threads is how people dig in and so 
fortify their position on a rather trivial matter and then it blows up into some 
do-or-die thing.