Re: [patch 1/1] consolidate TRUE and FALSE

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 13:07:42 EST


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:00:47 +0000 Al Viro wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:41:12PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > I assume that when you are not used to see 'bool', 'true' and 'false'
> > then they hurt the eye, but when used to it it looks natural.
>
> Five words: kernel is written in C.
>
> Not in Pascal. Not in C++. Not in Algol. "When used to (something
> non-idiomatic in C) it becomes natural" is not a valid argument.

C (C99) now includes booleans. Are we stuck pre-C99?

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~Randy
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