On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Ed Schouten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Maksim Yevmenkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> the idea was to ensure that kbd->kb_locked variable only takes values >> 0 (zero) and 1 (one). > > I often use constructs like these to do that: > > foo = bar ? 1 : 0; > > Maybe !!bar is a lot shorter to write, I think the line above is a lot > easier to read.
Indeed. I had no idea (and I would assume that many people wouldn't in my similar level of systems programming) what in the work you were trying to do above with that line. The one-line conditional is universal in almost all major high-level language dialects I've hit, minus Python and Tcl. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
