Re:JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0
by microcolonel on Saturday September 09, 2017 @11:31AM
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Wow, I would never have known about stdbool. I have never seen it used (explicitly), even though it's been around since I was two years old. Thanks for bringing this to light! :- )
Nonetheless, bool or _Bool (aside from having implicit saturating arithmetic and assignment) is a one-bit integer type. It seems it mostly just formalizes the (implied, fictional) narrowing conversion involved in testing conditions, which is probably why I've not seen it used explicitly. The macros true and false seem to expand to 1 and 0 respectively.
Re:JavaScript: The Curious Case of null >= 0
by int_19h on Sunday September 10, 2017 @06:10PM
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That's because Boolean is a one-bit integer type. Whether you choose to call your 0s and 1s "false" and "true", correspondingly, doesn't change that.
Furthermore, from this perspective, a Boolean AND is just integer multiplication; Boolean OR is saturating addition; Boolean XOR is inequality; and Boolean IMP is saturating subtraction.
>The pattern is basically directly lifted from C, where there's thankfully no such thing as a boolean type.
There has been a boolean type in the current standard for C for longer than some of the younger people here have been alive.