G'Day David,
 
-=> Quoting David Nugent to Frank Adam <=-

 FA> After all if an operation was successful, in boolean terms it would be
 FA> TRUE, so functions returning 1 on success and 0 on failure would make
 FA> more sense.
 DN> Sometimes it is. Actually, in C++ I quite often use the bool type
 DN> (which is a  built-in type in that language). When using classes, you 
 DN> can retain additional state information within the class 
 DN> itself, so the boolean return is often a convenient way of 
 DN> doing things. Even in C, I've often used FALSE and TRUE 
 DN> return values where it makes sense.
So do i, and it's probably just lazyness, but it becomes pretty quickly a
habit, in tests where i can, i will use true/false, except when posting
code in echos.
                  
... Coming up next week : Intel,IBM and the 640K barrier, a conspiracy ? :)


  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
  
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