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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Definition of boolean type
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Date: 13 Feb 89 14:35:54 GMT
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In article <2113@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
:       boolfoo = !!expr_returning_funny_bools;
:
: which, according to my KnR, should never ever give any boolfoo other
: than 0 or 1, even if the expr has a dozen different values for true.

It'll work, but try

	boolfoo = expr_returning_funny_bools != 0;

It's clearer.

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Bill
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