Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

From: J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 18:49:28 EST

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On 20020125 Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>Seriously, learn C. The fact that you don't understand it is _your_
>problem - l-k is not a place to teach you the langauge.
>

Please, stop with that thing of 'learn C'. C can have bad design points.
It is not perfect. Deal with it, but do not make it a god.

For this special case, what is so bad in halting people to write code
like

a = b + (c>7);

and write it like

a = b + (c>7 ? 1 : 0);

Let the compiler do its work.

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