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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:25:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> > Because you never test against X==true. You always test X!=false. This is
> > the C way.
>
> ITYM "You always test X".

I do indeed, but the bool crowd seems to like making the != explicit for
some reason.

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