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Date: Wed,  2 May 2007 07:25:40 -0400
From: Jon Snader <jsnader@ix.netcom.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
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On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:33:08AM +0000, Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> 
> Obviously there were.
> 
> Numerous C programmers have created their own Boolean support,
> e.g.:
> 	typedef int bool;
> 	#define false 0
> 	#define true 1

Which is exactly why a formal boolean type is *not* needed.
To paraphrase Dennis, ``If you want Pascal, you know where to
find it.''

jcs