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From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel
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On 20020125 Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>Seriously, learn C.  The fact that you don't understand it is _your_
>problem - l-k is not a place to teach you the langauge.
>

Please, stop with that thing of 'learn C'. C can have bad design points.
It is not perfect. Deal with it, but do not make it a god.

For this special case, what is so bad in halting people to write code
like

a = b + (c>7);

and write it like

a = b + (c>7 ? 1 : 0);

Let the compiler do its work.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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