On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote: > Because writing cast(bool)0 and cast(bool)1 is unappealing. why need to write that? just drop the bool type entirely and go ahead with an integer that you interpret as a boolean. welcome back to C (k&r).