Time to standardize "true" and "false"
Richard H. Gumpertz
rhg at cpsolv.UUCP
Wed Sep 27 12:27:40 AEST 1989
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.
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