Re: Different shades of false

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Alen Ladavac wrote:
> Really, this has more to embedded scripting in general than with C. I'm 
> confident that everyone perfectly understand the concept of 0=false, 1=true, 
> and that it is natural for that to be used in configuration scripts and 
> similar.

Not really, for me, it is pure convention, used in C, and therefore in 
many other languages created by C programmers...
Java doesn't use this convention...
It could have been: a single digit is false, above 9 it is true...
The 0/1=false/true became a quite common convention, that's probably 
what you mean, but it is not "that" natural... :-)

> In all our previous projects, both in-game console commands and 
> configuration scripts support a notion of booleans as 0/1. People are used 
> to type some_config_var=1 or =0. If =0 started to _enable_ stuff, we'd have 
> a lot to explain to the users. Duck-and-cover kind of explaining. ;)

Is it so hard to test:
if some_config_var = 0 then
instead of just:
if not some_config_var then
?

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