Re: equality operator question

On 2008-05-06 02:02:24 -0400, Eberhard Schefold <ebab@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> 
>> But for true, it's something else.  It may be 1, -1, 0xff, or whatever
>> not 0.
> 
> The language C++ guarantees that a value of type bool can only be one 
> of two things: true or false. Comparing a bool value with the literal 
> true is safe.

But comparing the return value of a function that returns an int 
against true won't necessarily give you a correct result.

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