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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style
Message-ID: <910@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 88 03:48:54 GMT
References: <11216@brl-adm.ARPA> <2111@chinet.UUCP> <4403@garfield.UUCP> <371@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: not quite right about PL/I

In article <371@m3.mfci.UUCP>, root@mfci.UUCP (SuperUser) writes:
>         Here is a table of canonical TRUE/FALSE values for various languages:
>             Language        True        False       Type
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>             PL/I            1           0           FIXED
[deleted]
This entry is incorrected.  The right answer is
	      PL/I	      '1'B        '0'B        BIT(1)
PL/I has (fixed-length) bitstrings BIT(N) as a family of data types.
(It is not clear that this was a good idea.)