[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH change_specialist

[Gregor Zeitlinger <zeitling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 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?
probably, but thats not a desirable way as it adds an extra unnecessary
step and reduces readablity.

> > > > +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.
??? The C compiler treats it as an int, AFAIK.

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