On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:49:24 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:45 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
>> writeln("state is: " ~ state ? "true" : "false"); > I can never remember precedence for ?:, so quite often I will > over-parenthesize those expressions. I also typically over-parenthesize > any expressions involving logical operations (i.e. & and |) Yes! > Rule of thumb -- minimal parentheses that establish order of precedence, > even if unnecessary, don't ever hurt :) And yes! > I'd expect "state is: " ~ false to result in "state is: false" bool is implicitly converted to char (as '\0' or '\1') and then the rest is all valid. Ali