more on TRUE and FALSE (side-comment)

Evan Marshall Manning manning at gap.caltech.edu
Tue Sep 18 02:21:52 AEST 1990


quan at sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) writes:

>Personally I hate 'writing' programs with :

>  if (strcmp(name,"hippo")==0) ....

>but it drives me balmy (not completely balmy though!) all the same.

>Anyone got a cure?  At the moment I'm trying DIET COKE!

Try caffeine-free diet Coke.

I use:

#define	STRING_MATCH	0	/* strcmp() returns 0 if strings match */

  if (strcmp(name,"potamus") == STRING_MATCH) ....

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