Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: No Such Thing Message-ID: <903@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 17:55:36 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.903 Posted: Thu Aug 22 17:55:36 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 10:01:58 EDT References: <868@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 > Flame On! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BOOLEAN!!! Flame Off. There is no such thing as an integer, either. So what. Booleans are not an "outmoded concept". They form a different algebraic system (a lattice) than real numbers (a field) and have different uses, both conceptually and formally. I object to mapping everything into arithmetic terms. Not everything in the universe is arithmetic. I don't understand the point of explaining how C maps natural booleans into arithmetic terms; that is just what I am complaining about.