• Mark Evans (5/5) Feb 13 2003 See
• Burton Radons (2/7) Feb 13 2003 "bit" has been "bool" in all ways but name since 0.50, three months ago.
• Sean L. Palmer (16/23) Feb 13 2003 So can we pass them as inout parameters yet? ;)
• Lars Ivar Igesund (8/12) Feb 14 2003 to
• Burton Radons (12/25) Feb 16 2003 Argh, these constants have been in the language since long before I got
• Roberto Mariottini (16/20) Feb 14 2003 For everyone not seeing the need for a Boolean type in a language:

Mark Evans <Mark_member pathlink.com> writes:

See
http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0285.html

Python has been around for well over a decade and finally bit the bullet.
There's a lesson here for D.

Mark

Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Mark Evans wrote:
 See
 http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0285.html
 
 Python has been around for well over a decade and finally bit the bullet.
 There's a lesson here for D.

"bit" has been "bool" in all ways but name since 0.50, three months ago.

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer directvinternet.com> writes:

So can we pass them as inout parameters yet?  ;)

At least predefine true to equal 1 (or -1, or ~0, or whatever) and false to
equal 0 so everyone else doesn't have to.  Those two words are not going to
be used as identifiers by sane people. anyway.  Might as well reserve them.

Do if/while/etc take a bit implicitly, or does it take an int and compare
with zero?

What is bit's .toString property defined to produce for each value?

Also what are the defined semantics of conversion from int or float to bool?
Surely it doesn't just keep the low bit and discard the rest, as for
instance int to byte would do.  If you cast bool to int what do you get?  Is
a bit signed, or unsigned?  The types section in the D docs doesn't mention
these things, but they definitely need to be defined.

Sean

"Burton Radons" <loth users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:b2hno8$86o$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Mark Evans wrote:
 See
 http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0285.html

 Python has been around for well over a decade and finally bit the


bullet.
 There's a lesson here for D.

 "bit" has been "bool" in all ways but name since 0.50, three months ago.

"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivi stud.ntnu.no> writes:

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer directvinternet.com> wrote in message
news:b2i6t1$kbp$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 So can we pass them as inout parameters yet?  ;)

 At least predefine true to equal 1 (or -1, or ~0, or whatever) and false

to
 equal 0 so everyone else doesn't have to.  Those two words are not going

to
 be used as identifiers by sane people. anyway.  Might as well reserve

them.

Look at the bottom of this page:

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/expression.html

Lars Ivar Igesund

Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> writes:

Sean L. Palmer wrote:
 So can we pass them as inout parameters yet?  ;)
 
 At least predefine true to equal 1 (or -1, or ~0, or whatever) and false to
 equal 0 so everyone else doesn't have to.  Those two words are not going to
 be used as identifiers by sane people. anyway.  Might as well reserve them.

Argh, these constants have been in the language since long before I got
here.

 Do if/while/etc take a bit implicitly, or does it take an int and compare
 with zero?

If it took an int, "if (0.9)" would be false.  So of course it takes a
bit, inserting an explicit cast if necessary.

 What is bit's .toString property defined to produce for each value?

There is no toString property for base types.

 Also what are the defined semantics of conversion from int or float to bool?
 Surely it doesn't just keep the low bit and discard the rest, as for
 instance int to byte would do.  If you cast bool to int what do you get?  Is
 a bit signed, or unsigned?  The types section in the D docs doesn't mention
 these things, but they definitely need to be defined.

They should be.  The only mention is in the Changes page.  These
assignments are equivalent:

      bit a;
      type b;

      a = cast (bit) b;
      a = (b ? true : false);

"Roberto Mariottini" <rmariottini lycosmail.com> writes:

"Mark Evans" <Mark_member pathlink.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:b2h7sq$2ruo$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 See
 http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0285.html

 Python has been around for well over a decade and finally bit the bullet.
 There's a lesson here for D.

For everyone not seeing the need for a Boolean type in a language:

 1 - Read 3 times the entire chapter about "Boolean algebra" of your good
old College book.
 2 - Say 100 times the following sentences:
        - "A boolean is not an integer, an integer is not a boolean, they
are _algebraicly_ intrinsecally different"
        - "If 7 == true and true == -145 then 7 == -145"
        - "Why zero == false and nonzero == true? Why not negative == false
and positive == true? Why not MAX_INT == true and random(MAX_INT) == false?"
        - "Why the h**l all widespread laguages, sooner or later, include a
f**ing boolean type?"
 3 - If you are not yet persuaded, goto 1
 4 - If you are not persuaded and you are reading this, tell your analyst.

Ciao