[Courses] re: [C] lesson 7

Kathryn Hogg kjh at flyballdogs.com
Wed Nov 6 09:46:56 EST 2002


> Hardcoding a boolean self-defined type would only make the program look
> a little more confusing than required later on.

I find that it makes things less confusing.  Whenever you see 'boolean'
you know that the range of possible values is {true, false}' whereas with
an int, you may not know what is expected.  This comes in quite handy when
perusing prototypes in header files.

> u>
> u> Or in C++ with
> u>
> u> typedef enum boolean{false, true};

C++ (standard C++ that is) has a built in bool type which can have the
values true or false.

-- 
Kathryn





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