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matt@godzilla.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Austern) writes:

>halasz@caip.rutgers.edu writes:
>
>> This exactlie reflects my point, that there is no special plase
>> in programming for a two-stated type.  It seldom is thus needed,
>> certainlie not enough for a new type & kieword.
>
>I tend to agree, actually: it would have been nice if C had had a
>boolean type from the very beginning, but it doesn't take much effort
>to get used to the idea that truth values are represented by integers.

Sure it doesn't take long to get used to the idea of using 0 and 1, but
the point is that programmers should express their intent in the source
code.  0 and 1 are just as easy to write as true or false (even easier,
since they are fewer keystrokes), but they can be significantly more
difficult to read.

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