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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Use true/false or TRUE/FALSE in KDE C++ programs?
From:       André_Wöbbeking <Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de>
Date:       2005-05-29 15:55:38
Message-ID: 200505291755.38366.Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de
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On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:02, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:48, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 May 2005 15:36, Richard Dale wrote:
> > > I hate code which type puns ints into booleans such as:
> > >
> > > if !strcmp("mything", "myotherthing') {
> > > 	..other difficult to read crap code
> > > }
> >
> > this is a bad example as strcmp() returns a tristate: less, equal
> > or greater but I know what you mean.
>
> Well, it's a good example because it's so bad.. :)

Would

  if (strcmp("mything", "myotherthing') == 0)...

help you if you don't know how strcmp() works? If old C had supported 
inlining they had probably strless(), strequal() and strgreater().
 
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