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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question
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Date: 12 Mar 88 06:13:45 GMT
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Reply-To: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
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Hey, I've got no problem with having a 'bit' data type!  I've been wondering
why it doesn't exist already.  It seems rather silly for boolean values
to take up a whole byte.

But I'm sure there is a good reason for this.  (There is, isn't there?  :-)

Frank Swarbrick (and his cat)
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