Cryptic C

[Andrew Koenig]

> I have always thought that to be a machine dependancy (the value of true and
> false).  Maybe I'm wrong.  But, different machines DO have different ideas
> of which is true and false (at the assembler level).  And it is simply
> a convention.

You are wrong: the value of true and false in C is defined as part of
the language:

When I write    if(exp) foo(); else bar();   foo is called if exp is
nonzero and bar is called if exp is zero.

The result of relational operators, &&, ||, and ! is always 1 or 0
(not some random machine-dependent value or zero).