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Re: PATCH: Define wildcardp as a macro with strpbrk


DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

> There was no implied smiley; I really am that paranoid.  I fear the
> day someone does "foo_p() != TRUE"

That has always been broken.  C before C99 does not have a true boolean
type.

> and discovers that foo_p() returns FALSE and some random other non-zero
> value that's != TRUE.

Just look at the <ctype.h> isfoo functions.  Many implementations return
arbitrary non-zero values for a true result.

Btw., AFAIK Pascal does not define <> and = for boolean operands.

Andreas.

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