In one message,
At 12:52 AM -0800 3/6/02, David O'Brien wrote:
>I don't think it is clarifying a rule. I think it is in fact adding
>a rule. You are extrapolating too much I think. All the rule is
>trying to prevent is "if (!strcmp(a,b))" which when read is extremely
>wrong of that is actually happening.
In a later message (not directly replying to the above),
At 4:44 AM -0600 3/6/02, Mike Meyer wrote:
>Looking at the text in the page on -stable, I think the one-word
>change from boolean to "integer" would remove the ambiguity.
If we change boolean to integer, then the proposed rule will not
prevent "if (!strcmp(a,b))" , because strcmp() *does* return an
integer value. Or am I missing something here?
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