Re: 1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Rob T]

On Saturday, 27 April 2013 at 21:52:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/27/2013 2:29 PM, Rob T wrote:
If bools are 1 bit ints, then why do we have 'true' and 
'false' as keywords?

Because writing cast(bool)0 and cast(bool)1 is unappealing.

That cannot be the main reason. There must be a more fundamental 
reason for having true and false (which is inconsistent with 
ints) instead of 1b and 0b (which is consistent with ints).

--rt