Re: Incrementing a bool

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From: halasz
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 16:03

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In article <9521600.9005@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes
+ 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.


Maibe each man and his dog needs his own type for that.
But I wunder why anione needs anie "boolean" type.

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Subject: Re: Incrementing a bool
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