Re: Conversion to generic boolean

Pavel Machek
2006-09-04T12:33:50Z

Hi!

> > I like it for the annotation we get.
> >
> > int fluff;
> > if(fluff == 0)
> >
> > This does not tell if fluff is an integer or a boolean (that is, what the
> > programmer intended to do -- not the 'int' the compiler sees).
> > If it had been if(!fluff), it would give a hint, but a lot of places also have
> > !x where x really is intended to be an integer (and should have been x==0 or
> > y==NULL resp.)
> >
>
> Bool would not help much either unless declaration is immediately follows
> use. I like Alan Sterns proposal ofencode return value in function name
> better - actions should always return < 0/0 and predicates should always
> be boolean equivalent.

Sounds very reasonable. Even today, 90% of code follows that
convention. Perhaps adding it to codingstyle would help?

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