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Date: Wed,  2 May 2007 08:33:19 +0000
From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc
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"erik quanstrom" <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote...
> this is different from how c has traditionally done types.
> c types mapped to what the hardware provides.  unless
> you're working on a hc6508 or similar, you probablly don't
> have bit-wide memory access.
> [bool]'s more in the spirit of oberon, or pascal which have
> had more formally defined and machine independent
> types.

C has a long tradition of not mapping precisely into the
native types, not even on the PDP-11, where "long"
was word-swapped from the native format.  bool can
easily be implemented in one of the native integer types.
Its properties are appropriate for its use.