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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% |
| Date | 2019-01-01 12:48 -0800 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lny384kst5.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 01/01/2019 03:06, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
>>> Perhaps simpler might be to say that operands of if(), while(), for(;;),
>>> &&, || unary !, need to be either already Bool, or have to be converted
>>> to Bool.
>>
>> Assuming you mean _Bool, no, that's not what they do. C90 didn't
>> have a boolean type.
>
> I deliberately didn't use _Bool. None of my languages have a boolean
> type, but the compilers do have one internally, just for this purpose,
> as something that should be yield by a conditional expression.
So you think it's simpler to describe it in terms of a type that exists
only internally in your compiler? Did you expect the rest of us to know
what you meant by "Bool"?
>>> It is that last that can also be done with !!.
>>
>> No, !!expr (for any scalar expression expr) yields a value *of type
>> int*, either 0 or 1.
>>
>> The result of the logical negation operator ! is 0 if the
>> value of its operand compares unequal to 0, 1 if the value
>> of its operand compares equal to 0. The result has type int.
>> The expression !E is equivalent to (0==E).
>
> if X is a scalar expression, what's the difference in the value (not
> type) of !!X compared with (_Bool)X?
They differ in type. I never said they differ in value.
--
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Re: Range-aware modulo operator -% Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-01-01 16:09 -0800
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