Re: Complaint about return code convention in queue_work() etc.

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> >> Recently introduced "bool".
> >
> >I haven't seen the new definition of "bool", but it can't possibly provide 
> >a strong distinction between integers and booleans.  That is, if x is 
> >declared as an integer rather than as a bool, the compiler won't complain 
> >about "if (x) ...".
> 
> Only Java will get you this distinction.

Not true.  It exists in Ruby.  :-)

> I would be comfortable with a 
> feature where conditionals (like if() and ?:) enforce a bool showing 
> up in C/C++, but it's not easy to get into the mainline gcc.

I think relying on an agreed-upon convention is the best we can do.

Alan Stern

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