Time to standardize "true" and "false"

Lehtinen Pertti pl at etana.tut.fi
Fri Sep 29 00:12:49 AEST 1989


>From article <12070 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, by wen-king at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (King Su):
> 
> #define bool(a) (!!(a))
> 
> Then just use bool(X) whenever you wanted to use (bool)X.
> 

	Then suddenly just behind the corner cames C-compiler from
	ACME-corporation and realizes '!!a' -> negation of negation is
	same as original -> we can optimize it away.

	Nice, isn't it.  And too real too.

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