At 7:49 PM +0100 3/6/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Garance A Drosihn writes: > >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. > > > >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? > >Right, and since the integer is well defined, > if (!strcmp(a, b)) >is perfectly understandable so what is the problem ?
Well, that's my question. David's comment implies that it is not good to do '!strcmp()', and I was wondering why it is not good... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
