On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:41:46AM +1000, John scratched on the wall:
> On 19/04/2012 5:14 AM, Jay A. Kreibich wrote:

> >   The type "BOOLEAN" will pick up a numeric affinity, but I can't see
> >   that being an issue.  Most Boolean values are stored as integer 0 or
> >   1 (in fact, SQLite has optimizations to store integer values 0 and
> >   1 for just this case).
> 
> That is interesting to know, I tend to use -1 as true (misspent
> youth dabbling in Forth on 8 bit machines).

  The optimization saves a whole byte per value, but yes... integer
  values 0 and 1 are special.

   -j

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Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y  @  K R E I B I.C H >

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