DMD can implicitly convert class pointer to the bool. Is it bug or terrible feature?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/26/13 8:52 AM, ilya-stromberg wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 16:27:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The win of (2) itself is yet to be quantified and the breakage is large.
>
> Excuse me, did you mean "disable shadowing global variables" or "disable
> shadowing class members"?

The latter.

> If I understand everything correctly, Walter said that "Shadowing
> members, it's debatable". His main objection was about initializing
> variables in constructor, but we can add syntax sugar for this case.
>
> See also:
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/l6tg7n$2i7s$1@digitalmars.com
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/l6tjdq$2kvc$1@digitalmars.com
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9801

I think Walter agrees that we can't disallow shadowing globals. Adding 
additional sugar is pretty much the kiss of death for the entire notion 
of disallowing shadowing of members.


Andrei