On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 14:02:43 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 13:57:22 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
This is neither bug not a terribale feature. Have you coded in
C?
Yes, only a little. I like D because it dissallow most of
dangerous abbilities. We already have `is` operator for pointer
comparison. Class doesn't provide cast to bool. So, why it's
allowed?
void* ptr;
if(ptr)
was a shortcut for 'if(ptr != NULL)' probably since C was created.
There is no problem with classes or pointers convertion to
booleans in condition statements, it is not a dangerous ability.
Is operator is not restricted to pointer comparison, you can use
it to bitwise compare any objects.
