Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

From: Timothy Covell (timothy.covell@ashavan.org)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 17:30:15 EST

On Thursday 24 January 2002 16:19, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:43, Timothy Covell wrote:
> > It doesn't fix "if ( x = true)". If would
> > just make it more legit to use "if (x)".
> > Just IMHO.
>
> how is "if (x)" any less legit if x is an integer ?
>
> Robert Love
>

What about

{
    char x;

    if ( x )
    {
        printf ("\n We got here\n");
    }
    else
    {
        // We never get here
        printf ("\n We never got here\n");
    }
}

That's not what I want. It just seems too open to bugs
and messy IHMO. 

-- 
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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