BigInt bool assign

Derek ddparnell at bigpond.com
Sat Dec 24 08:11:40 PST 2011


On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:33:33 +1100, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

>
> I think stuff like
> int z +=  x > y;
> should ideally require a cast. That's a crazy operation.

Another issue is that it is a mere convention that C uses 1 to represent  
TRUE and 0 to represent FALSE. There are some languages that use 0 for  
FALSE (all bits off) and -1 for TRUE (all bits on).


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia


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