> On Nov 20, 2016, at 19:52 , Jon Shier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Except in that case true isn’t a Bool but an NSNumber, which is why you can 
> initialize an Int from it. It seems trivially easy to add an Int extension to 
> do what you want though.

Is there a way that avoids branching?

So, according to Xcode, "true" and "a > b" both have type "Bool". I don't know 
why the compiler allows one and not the other, except that it's literal, and I 
guess there's a "BoolLiteralConvertible" (or equivalent) for the types.

For now I'm doing what I need with branching, but it would be nice to find a 
more efficient way.

> 
> 
> Jon
> 
>> On Nov 20, 2016, at 10:48 PM, Rick Mann via swift-users 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It seems I can't do this:
>> 
>> let r = Int(a > b)
>> 
>> but I can do it with a literal:
>> 
>> let r = Int(true)
>> 
>> I'd like to do this to implement signum without branching, but perhaps 
>> that's not possible.
>> 
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