From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Boolean Representation
Date: 1998/09/24
Date: 1998-09-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6uecer$3sf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6udkcj$87j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <6udkcj$87j$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
matthew_snyder@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> Is it safe to make the assumption that a boolean value of FALSE will always
> be represented as a 0 and a value of TRUE will always be represented as a 1?
> Will an unchecked conversion from a boolean to an integer always yield the
> same results with different compilers?
I believe the only guarantee you get is that the value of True is larger than
the value of False. To get the behavior you want portably, do a:
Boolean'pos(Boolean_Variable)
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1998-09-24 0:00 Boolean Representation matthew_snyder
1998-09-24 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-09-24 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-27 0:00 ` null pointer representation (was: Boolean Representation) Arthur Evans Jr
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-30 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1998-10-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Boolean Representation dewarr
1998-09-24 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-24 0:00 ` matthew_snyder
1998-09-24 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-24 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-09-24 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-27 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-09-28 0:00 ` dewar
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1998-09-24 0:00 matthew_snyder
1998-09-25 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-25 0:00 ` dewarr
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