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Re:Bournegol – Algol-like dialect of C used to write the ori... by sduclos on Saturday December 27, 2014 @11:35AM (#8803007)
Wonder the rational for

  #define TRUE (-1)
  #define FALSE 0
instead of

  #define TRUE (1==1)
  #define FALSE !TRUE
edit: re-formatting
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Re:Bournegol – Algol-like dialect of C used to write the ori... by sduclos on Saturday December 27, 2014 @11:54AM (#8803078)
replying to myself, −1 is 1111 1111 in 8-bit two's-complement integer
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