Re: RFC: booleans and the kernel

[Robert Love]

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 17:30, Timothy Covell wrote:
>
> On Thursday 24 January 2002 16:19, Robert Love wrote:
> > how is "if (x)" any less legit if x is an integer ?
>
> What about 
> 
> {
>     char x;
> 
>     if ( x )
>     {
>         printf ("\n We got here\n");
>     }
>     else
>     {
>         // We never get here
>         printf ("\n We never got here\n");
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> That's not what I want.   It just seems too open to bugs
> and messy IHMO.

When would you ever use the above code?  Your reasoning is "you may
accidentally check a char for a boolean value."  In other words, not
realize it was a char.  What is to say its a boolean?  Or not?  This
isn't an argument.  How does having a boolean type solve this?  Just use
an int.  

	Robert Love