From kde-core-devel  Mon Oct 04 18:14:49 2004
From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale () tipitina ! demon ! co ! uk>
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:14:49 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: A new helper class
Message-Id: <200410041914.49524.Richard_Dale () tipitina ! demon ! co ! uk>
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On Monday 04 October 2004 15:13, Harri Porten wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I prefer the traditional C-way of
> > representing this:
> > int ret;
> > ret>0 -> true
> > ret==0 -> false
> > ret<0 -> error/exception
>
> Funny. I'd interpret an value of 0 as meaning success in a C api. So it
> seems like this convention is not *that* safe ;)
I loathe it when people code something like this:

if (!strcmp(thing, otherthing)) {
    ...
}

Booleans should be booleans, and nothing else should be a boolean in my 
opinion.

-- Richard