Re: [Nmh-workers] Nmh-commits Digest, Vol 108, Issue 11

[Paul Vixie]

Bakul Shah wrote:
> > >       fmttest.c: Avoid `++' with bools, silencing compiler warnings.
> > i hate that perfectly reasonable, traditional idioms have to be avoided
> > for this reason.
>
> No strong reason to use type bool in the first place. It didn’t show up till 
> c99.

pointers aren't booleans. integers aren't booleans. being able to 
silently treat either as a boolean has meant that expressions with 
parenthesis in the wrong place often compile without warnings and then 
produced unexpected results. bool was invented for a reason and we 
should be using it everywhere. even if that means we can't say ++.

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P Vixie