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In article <3vq4uf$2lh@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>, kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes
: My argument centers on types.  Something with a logically false value
: also has a logically true value, and no other values.  True and false
: are not numeric values, nor are they pointers, and it makes no sense to
: declare them as such.
No, there are as manie valus as one wants between "true" and "false", and
this shows up even in ordinarie C-programming.  There is no need for the near
equivalent of this,
	typedef enum { false, true } bool;
when it depnds on the program, hou finelie to divide "truth".

: With flags, I agree.  But then, my flags always have names like
: `isSomethingOrOther', with immediatly identify them as logical
: predicates.
: 
: Again, a flag has two possible values: true and false.  The number of
: operations on a flag is limited.  A flag is a logical predicate, and I
: want the compiler to scream if I accidentally write `flag + 6'.
When I hav twain-stated flags, I name them so, but with no "is"--but I often
hav flags that hav more states.

: Stated differently, since int's are numeric values, why should one
: numeric value (0) be priviledged?  
Well, yes, there are other "halving"s of the integers: besides that which C
has, in the Lisp-tradition, one can hav odd/even as the VMS-DCL has it, or,
my favorit, negativ or not negativ.

: For me, at least, `ptr' is an object (with a set of values and a set of
: legal operations, thus with a specific type).  An object is, in fact, a
: noun.  Grammatically, a noun can only be used with a verb, .....
I guess that that makes this bad English:
	Look at me, a poor countrie boy!
or this:
	The longer my vacation, the better I like the offer.
And besides this, ellipsis is quite common in speech--why not in programming?