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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Boolean datatypes
Message-ID: <660@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 18:06:54 EDT
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> 	typedef enum { false=0,true } bool;
> 
> Many current C compilers now implement enums properly (i.e. each enumeration
> is a distinct type) yet they are hardly ever used. Any comments why not ?

The problems come when you write:

	bool b;
	int a, c;

	b = (a == c);

My compiler gives an "enumeration type clash".  It would seem that you
can't legally convert integers to enum members...

	Wayne