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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Boolean Representation
Date: 1998/09/24
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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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