Bool to Float
Monkey Forums/Monkey Bug Reports/Bool to Float
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| This isn't a biggy, and I don't expect it to get "fixed" because it's not really a bug, more a quirk. .. but I spotted it, so I might as well mention it. a=(b=1)*0.5 doesn't work... a=float(b=1)*0.5 doesn't work... a=float(int(b=1))*0.5 does work! |
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| Halleluja... lol. I'm just curious how you stumbled across this one?! |
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| SetAlpha(0.5+((Status>0)*0.5)) |
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| This is working as intended, I think. There is an implicit conversion from bool to int, and from int to float. But implicit conversions do not chain. |
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| Yeah, it's a bit of a 'quirk' - bool can only be implicitly cast to int. Bool casting is a bit dodgy, esp. with strings - eg: for this to work: Local b:Bool=... If b=Bool(String(b)) 'will always work, right? Endif bool->string would have to produce an empty string. If bool->string produced something like "0","1","false","true" whatever, string->bool would always return true since string->bool is the same as string.Length<>0 (which I really like and find useful). I thought bool->string producing empty strings would be confusing, eg: if you tried to Print( b ) and it printed nothing, so I disallowed bool->string casting entirely. Implicit bool->float could be made to work, but I decided to keep it simple for now. So yes, it's 'quirky', but IMO less quirky than the alternatives might have been! |
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