Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/09/15/08:18:05
>What are the advantages of boolean variables in C? What is wrong with zero
>and non-zero? I think that there are more disadvantages than advantages.
>It seems that whenever this topic comes up in comp.lang.c, all the C gurus
>discourage the use of such variables. As a result, when I see TRUE/FALSE
If the gurus say so, it must be wrong ;-)
>code in C, I get nervous about the quality of the code. For example,
>MS-Windows API is full of TRUE/FALSE stuff and I know that some of it is
>poorly designed. C is not PASCAL.
If Microsoft does it, it must be wrong ;-)
But, hold . . . surely you're not suggesting
abs(1+((bad(x)&bad(y)*contains(x,y)-bad(y)))) > 0
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