linux-kernel - Re: Conversion to generic boolean

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Date:	Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:51:11 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>,
	James.Bottomley@...eleye.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conversion to generic boolean

Hi!

> > I like it for the annotation we get.
> > 
> > 	int fluff;
> > 	if(fluff == 0)
> > 
> > This does not tell if fluff is an integer or a boolean (that is, what the
> > programmer intended to do -- not the 'int' the compiler sees).
> > If it had been if(!fluff), it would give a hint, but a lot of places also have
> > !x where x really is intended to be an integer (and should have been x==0 or
> > y==NULL resp.)
> >
> 
> Bool would not help much either unless declaration is immediately follows
> use. I like Alan Sterns proposal ofencode return value in function name
> better - actions should always return < 0/0 and predicates should always
> be boolean equivalent.

Sounds very reasonable. Even today, 90% of code follows that
convention. Perhaps adding it to codingstyle would help?

-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

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