On Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 19:15:10 UTC, seany wrote:
(so i want liek a C style fopen -like function, that , although called with the syntax: file *f = fopen(balh, "bla"); can set f to be false)
I think you have a misunderstanding here. C does not allow you to return "false." Instead C states that 0/NULL is false. Similarly D also considers null and 0 to be false inside a conditional (where in D's case those are two different values).
So yes, you can do the same in D, but since false, null, and 0 are actually all different types and will not implicitly cast to the other.
