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From: rlb@zaiaz32.UUCP
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Subject: Re: What should be added to C (booleans)
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Date: Mon, 2-Jun-86 10:06:11 EDT
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> 
> provided that the two expressions evaluate to whatever a boolean int is
> locally (1 or -1).  {BTW I usually use set_me_true = (1 == 1)}
> 

This worries me, much the same as when I see someone code:

	#define	FALSE	0
	#define	TRUE	!FALSE

Makes me think that the person writing may really not know that a C
"boolean" expression (expression formed with the logical/relational operators)
is *defined* to be either 1 or 0.

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