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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Time to standardize "true" and "false"
Message-ID: <1989Sep23.072933.21366@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13730@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 89 07:29:33 GMT

In article <13730@well.UUCP> nagle@well.UUCP (John Nagle) writes:
>     I would like to suggest that the time has come to standardize the
>Boolean values in C...

They are already standard.  Integer nonzero means true.  Integer zero
means false.  There is not the slightest hope of changing this now.
Furthermore, it's not clear that it's worth the trouble.
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