On 6/12/11 7:26 AM, so wrote:
My take on this is that we shouldn't try to reinvent the boolean in the
standard library.
I think this characterization is wrong. Let me replace the meaningless
Abc with an actual example, e.g. OpenRight in std.algorithm.
OpenRight is not a Boolean. Its *representation* is Boolean. It is
categorical data with two categories. You can represent it with an
unstructured Boolean the same way you can represent an automaton state
with an unstructured integer or temperature with an unstructured
double, but then you'd have the disadvantages that dimensional
analysis libraries are solving.
Quite contrary i think it is pretty much spot on, if it is not but just
its representation is boolean so is every other usage of boolean.
The only reason we use an enum instead of simple bool is self
documentation "fun(OpenRight.yes)". You simply can't deny the named
arguments solve not only this particular issue but the entire area
nicely "fun(openRight:true, width:4, height:3, depth:5)".
Never did.
Andrei
