On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 21:13:58 nkm1 via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > OTOH, booleans being numbers is a source of some bugs (just like > other cases of weak typing). Not a ton of bugs, but the utility > of implicit conversion to numbers is so unnoticeable that I'm > sure it's just not worth it.
I think that most of us would agree with you, but the last time it was serious discussed, Walter couldn't be convinced. Based on more recent discussions with him, he did seem to now agree that we're probably too liberal with how many implicit conversions we allow, but I don't know which ones specifically he'd be willing to do differently if we didn't care about breaking code. But since breaking code would definitely be a problem with any implicit conversion that was removed, I doubt that it would be easy to talk him into making any changes to the implicit conversions now even if you could get him to agree that we ideally would. - Jonathan M Davis
