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From: volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE
Message-ID: <11369@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 12:11:39 GMT
References: <11215@alice.UUCP> <514@demott.COM> <2316@cirrusl.UUCP>
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Reply-To: volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
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In article <2316@cirrusl.UUCP>, dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
(Rahul Dhesi) writes:
|>
|>When I find somebody who really, really, really wants to define TRUE
|>and FALSE, even somebody who uses them for assignment only, I recommend
|>the following defines instead:
|>
|>     #define ZERO   0
|>     #define ONE    1
|>

Ugh. Those say nothing. They don't hint to the boolean nature of the
variables being assigned to. They're as useless as the comments in
the following code:

   main()
   {
     int i; /* declare variable i */
     i=0; /* assign zero to i */
     while (!EOF) { /* while not end of file */
       i=i+1; /* increment i by one */
       if (i>100) /* if i is greater than 100 */
         i=0; /* then reset i to zero */
     }
   }
                 
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Chris Volpe
G.E. Corporate R&D
volpecr@crd.ge.com