String::Compare

[NeedHelp]

Something that has always annoyed me about managed C++ is not having the ability to compare strings like

String^ c = "this";
String^ d = "that";

if (c == d) {}

instead you have to use code like

String^ c = "this";
String^ d = "that";

if (String::Compare(c,d) == 0) {
....
}

Why is this? And why does 0 equal true? hasn't 1 always been the value that equals true? Why did they have to change the entire language. It doesn't even resemble ANSI C++.

[Jordan]

Not sure why they changed it like that but it annoys me as well. True is now 0 because anything other than 0 is false. That means it can be -12000 or 100 to be false.

[brackett]

Uhh...doesn't strcmp use the same returns?

[RobSoftware]

Its not just String::Compare but everything now returns 0 for true in managed C++.