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From: alanf@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Alan Grant Finlay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FALSE and TRUE (Sorry, I did mean TRUE = -1?)
Message-ID: <3051@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU>
Date: 11 Sep 90 04:55:01 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni. Computer Science, Australia
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My suggestion of FALSE = -1 is clearly ludicrous.
The reason for the mistake is that I don't actually need to know the values
the mnemonics stand for.  Hence I was confused and got it around the wrong
way.  Since zero is used for false and any non zero for true (in conditional
statements), what I meant was TRUE = -1.
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The point is that the logical operators in C: ||, &&, and ! are designed to
allow any non zero value to represent TRUE.