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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:31:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Timothy Covell wrote:

> On Thursday 24 January 2002 14:39, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> > The compiler _will_ turn if(a==0) into a test of a with itself rather than
> > a comparison against a constant. Since PDP days, no doubt.
>
> I thought that the whole point of booleans was to stop silly errors
> like
>
> if ( x = 1 )
> {
> 	printf ("\nX is true\n");
> }
> else
> {
> 	# we never get here...
> }

And how does s/1/true/ fix that?

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