Re: 1 matches bool, 2 matches long

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/28/2013 11:05 AM, deadalnix wrote:

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.

VRP say you don't need to.

void foo(bool b){ } // 1
void foo(int i){ }  // 2

void main(){
    foo(cast(bool)0); // calls 1
    foo(0);           // calls 2
}