"Ali Çehreli" <acehr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:jok8f1$k1r$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 05/11/2012 02:45 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: >> On 05/11/2012 10:10 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> I use 'in' all the time, and I never even think about it returning a >>> pointer. I just do: >>> >>> if(foo in bar) >>> >>> And it just works. So I don't see a particularly big problem here. >>> >>> >> >> Try this: >> >> bool fun(){ return foo in bar; } > > Isn't that an inconsistency in the language then? Are pointer values > implicitly convertible to bool or not? >
Like Timon said, it's a feature of "if". I agree it's weird and confusing, though. At least I'm used to it :/
