C Style (Was Re: == vs =)

[Barnacle Wes]

In article <255 at oink.UUCP>, jep at oink.UUCP (James E. Prior) writes:
>    if (var==TRUE)
> 
> is not only abominable, it can be dangerous.  var==TRUE tends to presume
> that the only valid values of var are FALSE and TRUE.

Right.  The only really safe way to do this is:

typedef enum boolean {false, true};
...
	boolean foo;
	...
	if (foo == true) { ...

But, of course, then you can test your `booleans' directly too, like

	if (foo) { ...

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