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Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types

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On 06/28/2011 07:21 AM, James Kuyper wrote:
...
> If so, then he might be talking about the idea, which has frequently
> been discussed, that it was a mistake for C to conflate arithmetic and
> boolean values the way that it does. I tend to agree, but it's not
> feasible to change that aspect of C without breaking a LOT of code
> (including most of mine: since C does conflate them, I make heavy use of
> that fact in my code).
> 
> To make this idea clearer, let me outline how a new C-like language that
> implemented this idea would differ from C:
...
> * All relational and equality comparisons result in a _Bool value, even
> in #if expressions.
> * All of the following are constrained to be of type _Bool:
> 	- The operands of all logical operators (!, &&, ||)

I should also have specified that the results of logical operators are
of type _Bool.
-- 
James Kuyper

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| vs || operator on C99 bool types Matthias Arndt <marndt@asmsoftware.de> - 2011-06-27 16:21 +0000
  Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2011-06-27 13:38 -0400
  Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-27 21:51 -0400
    Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-28 16:16 +0000
      [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-28 20:35 -0400
        Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 21:33 +0000
          Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-06-30 10:58 -0700
            Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-06-30 18:57 +0000
              Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-07-01 12:53 -0700
                Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-07-02 18:27 +0000
                Re: [OT] Genderangement [Was: Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types] Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> - 2011-07-03 20:53 -0700
      Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-03 03:34 -0700
        Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-07-03 08:25 -0400
          Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types gordonb.pbl6v@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2011-07-03 18:23 -0500
  Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-06-28 07:21 -0400
    Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-06-28 08:24 -0400
      Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Matthias Arndt <marndt@asmsoftware.de> - 2011-06-28 16:11 +0000
  Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-06-28 16:37 -0700
    Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-03 03:41 -0700
      Re: | vs || operator on C99 bool types Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-03 15:02 -0700

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