Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 22:08 PDT
From: jdp AT polstra DOT com (John Polstra)
To: djgpp AT polstra DOT com
Subject: Re: named enum?

> >My guess is that GCC is a sufficiently late version that it supports
> >the use of the 'bool' type, which has been accepted by the ANSI committee
> >which is deciding the C++ standard.

That is correct.

> 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 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.

And ... C++ is not C.

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