From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:00:51 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] speaking of kenc In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50704262154s5941ea83p72b2d7b2fd9ad2f8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50b1e736-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >_Bool is a notational convenience, maybe helping document functions >returning only pass/fail status, or for the isalpha(2) family of >functions. no, since its type is different from that produced by the logical and equality operators (eg, ! and ==) which are still int! it's a unsigned integer type with a limited range (0 or 1), a special conversion rule, and of course a peculiar name (not even _bool!). pointless tinkering.