Re: Incrementing a bool

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 14:35

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msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>I'm saying.  I'm saying that there is no justification
>for adding to the language a type specific to boolean values, when such
>values can already be manipulated in any of several types.

But that's the whole point: every man and his dog uses a different
type to store boolean values.  This causes a real software engineering
problem, especially when you are using several different libraries,
all of which define `bool' (incompatibly).  It makes sense to standardize
on just *one* boolean type.

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