Thoughts on some code breakage with 2.074

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, May 10, 2017 05:05:59 Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 05/09/2017 10:34 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>  > I even appreciate breakages that eventually force me to write more
>  >
>  > readable code!  A not-so-recent example:
>  >    /* Used to work, oh, I forget which version now, but it used to
>  >
>  >     * work: */
>  >
>  >    MyType* ptr = ...;
>  >    if (someCondition && ptr) { ... }
>  >
>  > After upgrading the compiler, I get a warning that using a pointer as a
>  > condition is deprecated.  At first I was mildly annoyed... but then to
>  >
>  > make the warning go away, I wrote this instead:
>  >    /* Look, ma! Self-documenting, readable code! */
>  >    MyType* ptr = ...;
>  >    if (someCondition && ptr !is null) { ... }
>
> Can you show an example please. I don't see this being required by
> 2.074.0 (compiled with -w -de).

I think that that's the one that Andrei and Vladimir didn't like, because
they actually used the conversion to bool correctly in their code a bunch
(whereas most everyone else thought that it was too error prone), and the
deprecation ended up being removed.

- Jonathan M Davis