On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 08:03:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/25/2013 11:16 PM, deadalnix wrote:
This "feature" never has been useful to me.
It has been useful to me. So there!
If you want an int to behave like a bool, then by all means go
ahead and write the code yourself, I don't want the compiler to
do it for me in a silent manner.
It has caused bug.
The bug is not providing an overload for int.
That kind of nonintuitive requirement is easily overlooked.
Additionally, the behavior is inconsistent :
int i = 1;
foo(i); // Don't call the bool version.
It is not inconsistent - you forgot a foo(int) overload. '1' is
an int. If you don't supply and int overload, it must
implicitly convert, and those conversions are considered
equivalent.
Seriously, let's fix this once and for all. Bool is bool, it's
not int and never should have been. I don't understand why we're
having this debate.
--rt
