Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Mon Jan 22 2007 - 06:03:06 EST


On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to
> > types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over
> > 100 instances of those same macros being *defined* throughout the
> > source tree. you're not going to be deleting the hundreds and
> > hundreds of *uses* of TRUE and FALSE (not yet, anyway) but, at the
> > very least, by adding two lines to types.h, you can delete all
> > those redundant *definitions* and make sure that nothing breaks.
> > (it shouldn't, of course, but it's always nice to be sure.)
>
> Doesn't seem very worthwhile, and it legitimises this definition
> we're trying to get rid of.

hmmmmmmmm ... apparently, you totally missed my use of the important
word "temporarily":

$ grep -r "temporary hack" . | wc -l
16

rday
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