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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, timothy.covell@ashavan.org
Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:30:15 -0600
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On Thursday 24 January 2002 16:19, Robert Love wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:43, Timothy Covell wrote:
> > It doesn't fix  "if ( x = true)". If would
> > just make it more legit to use "if (x)".
> > Just IMHO.
>
> how is "if (x)" any less legit if x is an integer ?
>
> 	Robert Love
>

What about 

{
    char x;

    if ( x )
    {
        printf ("\n We got here\n");
    }
    else
    {
        // We never get here
        printf ("\n We never got here\n");
    }
}


That's not what I want.   It just seems too open to bugs
and messy IHMO.

-- 
timothy.covell@ashavan.org.
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