Time to standardize "true" and "false"

[King Su]

In article <393 at cpsolv.UUCP> rhg at cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:
>The biggest advantage of a built-in boolean type would be that casts TO it
<would test for zero/non-zero rather than just trucating the high-order bits
>if sizeof(source) is bigger than sizeof(bool).  Also, (bool)X & (bool)Y would
<do "right" thing even if X was 4 and Y was 32.  In other words, & would be
>equivalent to && for type bool except that both operands would be evaluated.

Why not just do:

#define bool(a) (!!(a))

Then just use bool(X) whenever you wanted to use (bool)X.

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