From: MARK CALLAGHAN
Date: August 31 2010 5:04pm
Subject: Re: [STYLE] use true/false in C++, not TRUE/FALSE
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Does it support bool?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@stripped> wrote=
:
> On 8/31/10 1:54 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>
>> Please name one that doesn't :)
>
> Microsoft Visual C++.
>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Davi Arnaut<davi.arnaut@stripped>
>> =A0wrote:
>>>
>>> It should be obvious, but how long C99 has been around does not matter
>>> much.
>>> Whether the compilers we rely upon are providing those C99 features is
>>> much
>>> more important.
>>>
>>> On 8/31/10 1:41 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it's WAY too early to standardize on C99 and stdbool.h. ;)
>>>>
>>>> -jay
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Guilhem Bichot
>>>> <guilhem.bichot@stripped> =A0 =A0wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess the only solution to this, is to decrease the use of my_bool =
as
>>>>> much
>>>>> as possible, i.e. use bool in C++ code. my_bool would be confined to =
C
>>>>> code
>>>>> (which code does not evolve much nowadays).
>>>>>
>>>>> MARK CALLAGHAN a =E9crit, Le 31.08.2010 17:53:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Behavior like this is unwelcoming to the community.
>>>>>> (my_bool) 255 --> =A0 =A0TRUE
>>>>>> (my_bool) 256 --> =A0 =A0FALSE
>>>>>> (my_bool) 257 --> =A0 =A0TRUE
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Guilhem Bichot
>>>>>> <guilhem.bichot@stripped> =A0 =A0wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sure, but what do you mean by "fix my_bool"? Could you please expan=
d
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> little bit?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> MARK CALLAGHAN a =E9crit, Le 26.08.2010 18:17:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Are there plans to fix my_bool?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It has been quiet on internals so I figured I would ask.
>>>>>
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