From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 19:02:31 +0100
Date: 2002-11-07T19:02:31+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dcaaac6_1@news.bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: pan.2002.11.07.06.50.35.988084@greenroom.com.au
"Matthew Baulch" <matt@greenroom.com.au> wrote:
> In C, the Negative of a bool is retrieved with !foo.
Well, because C has no "bool" in the sense of Boolean variables, this
is rather irrelevant.
The "!" probably was literally meant as "not" but does not really do
it, it just acts like a "compare with zero", simulating a Boolean. :-)
So "!=" does not make sense from this point of view. One could argue,
its just the best "visual" replacement they could get for a "/=" what
could not be used because it was already meant to be a complete
different thing. ;-)
Vinzent.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-06 16:12 Where did /= come from? Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 16:50 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-06 17:25 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07 9:31 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 11:19 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-11-07 11:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 22:56 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08 9:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 9:53 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 19:35 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 17:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-06 20:17 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07 6:50 ` Matthew Baulch
2002-11-07 9:21 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 0:23 ` news.bctel.net
2002-11-08 9:45 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 14:58 ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-07 15:29 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 22:57 ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08 17:06 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 15:03 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-07 18:02 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
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