From: Timur Tabi <b04825@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] Introduce a global bool type
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:09:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50EC6EE4.1050901@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130108190715.D2D14202B69@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> You are right. And I wrote that it's a bug. But this is what you can
> easily get from using boolean types. This is example has not been
> invented by me. I don't even claim that this was good programming
> style - all I want to say is that from what I have seen the boolean
> types are not a panacea; they cause new problems as well.
I don't disagree with any of that, but I don't see what your point is.
Every time you use a new feature, there are also new ways to use it
incorrectly. By your logic, we should use no new features of the C
language that were invented in the past 20 years.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 22:10 [U-Boot] [PATCH] Introduce a global bool type York Sun
2013-01-07 22:29 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-07 22:32 ` [U-Boot] [u-boot-release] " Timur Tabi
2013-01-07 22:39 ` [U-Boot] " Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-07 22:50 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-07 22:54 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-01-08 6:25 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-08 16:51 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2013-01-08 17:49 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-08 17:53 ` Timur Tabi
2013-01-08 19:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-08 19:09 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2013-01-08 19:56 ` York Sun
2013-01-08 21:39 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-01-08 21:43 ` York Sun
2013-01-08 21:46 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-19 9:30 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-01-21 18:05 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-21 22:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-01-21 22:51 ` Scott Wood
2013-01-21 23:08 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-01-22 7:41 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-01-22 12:59 ` Måns Rullgård
2013-01-08 18:34 ` Bernhard Walle
2013-01-08 19:08 ` Wolfgang Denk
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