From: jcoffin{at}taeus.com
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

At 08:23 PM 9/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:

[ ... ]

>I wish I could take credit for it, but that little gem cam from long-
>forgotten C_Echo source.

It's long enough ago that I'm _far_ from certain, but every time I see it,
Larry Mashlan's name comes to my mind.

>  Still both the 1989 and 1999 standards define an
>boolean true to evaluate to specifically to 1,

Yes, but functions that return boolean values (e.g. the isXXX family in
ctype.h) are allowed to return any non-zero value to signal true (and many
do return values other than 1).
         Later,
         Jerry.

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