[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH change_specialist

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:13:48PM +0100, Gregor Zeitlinger wrote:
> > Whats wrong with TRUE and FALSE?
> I just thought, if some parts of the code will be taken to Java, it makes
> it easier, since Java has no preprocessor.

Can sed be used for this?

> > > +typedef int boolean;
> > A "can" or "is" in the function name is enough to indicate a boolean
> > return type.
> it's more clear that way. It follows the approach to make code more
> readable. Thus, boolean indicates that only true and false are allowed and
> any assignment statement to a boolean variable should be that way.

However in C the compiler doesn't check it. So it IMHO equivalent to
write "return boolean" in a comment.

        Raimar

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