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Re: Assignment 5 bool?

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From: Trey Herschede
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:00
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I defined mine just as Mary did, I hope that there was nothing more to
it . . .

Trey

Xylen wrote:
> 
> donald johnson wrote in message <6f3irg$3n90@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>...
> >This is begining to bug me.  The assignment states that we
> >should create functions that return type bool with values
> >of TRUE and FALSE.  Well, apparently the CC compiler doesn't
> >know of type bool, so no problem if we create enum that
> >defines it, but...  this might cause a conflict with a
> >complier that did have bool, the book implies that such a
> >complier would expect bool with lowercase values of true and
> >false (as opposed to all caps).
> >
> >The book has sort of a way around this (APPENDIX E), which
> >still is going to conflict with assignment specs because it
> >uses lowercase true and false.
> >
> >I have chosen to use a variation of Van's example in class
> >which used Bool with True, False.  My variation uses Bool
> >with FALSE, TRUE - close to assignment, but not quite.
> >
> >Am I missing something here, (often likely) or was the
> >assignment mis-printed (possible, I suppose).
> >
> >Or... was this just an incidental part of the assignment
> >and any old kludge will do?   -I doubt it, but worth a : )
> 
> I used the following, and it works just fine, so maybe any old Kludge will
> work.  :)
> 
> #define bool int
> #define false 0
> #define true 1
> 
> Mary
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