Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!cmcl2!yale!cs.yale.edu!news From: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Time to standardize "true" and "false" Message-ID: <1021@cs.yale.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 20:44:21 GMT References: <13730@well.UUCP> <1989Sep22.073138.19684@lth.se> <1885@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <7701@bunker.UUCP> <12067@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <822@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> Reply-To: zador-anthony@CS.YALE.EDU (anthony zador) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 13 >vojon ol mi komence imagis. ^Cu pletely different from what I first >ne unu el la precipaj avanta^goj imagined. Wouldn't one of the main >de C-tipo `boolean' estus, ke ^gi advantages of a `boolean' type in C >ebligus pli striktan kontrolon de be the possibility for stricter type >tipoj (pli ol la ^sparo de kelkaj checking (rather than saving a few >bitoj)? Kompreneble, tiuj belaj bits)? Of course, such beloved con- >konstrua^joj "xestus eblaj, se ne permesi ankaw be possible, unless comparison of >komparon de bule-oj. `boolean's would be permitted. From: zador-anthony@CS.YALE.EDU (anthony zador) Path: zador-anthony@CS.YALE.EDU OK, i'll bite. Esperanto?