27 Apr 96 21:58, Frank Adam wrote to Andrew Clarke:

 > No , i was saying that in a boolean test True = 1 and False = 0, so
 > the functions returning a 0 on success seem out of sorts, not to mention
 > it limiting my ability or desire to test the return value as a bool True.

 > Oh, yes i could have: if(!strcmp("bla","bla")) dothat();
 > Do we like that ? ;)

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're getting at there Frank.  Few
(if any?) standard C library functions return 1 for success and 0 for
failure.  That's just the way it is.

I'm not sure how a function returning 0 on success can't be tested in a
boolean expression though.

#include 

int myFunc(void)
{
    return 0;
}

int main(void)
{
    if (myFunc() == 0)
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;  /* True */
    else
        return EXIT_FAILURE;  /* False */
}

???

Regards
Andrew

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