Hi, On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Andy Parkins wrote: > I've never really liked "!" on strcmp() lines (but I accept that that is the > tradition in git) because it implies the the output of prefixcmp is boolean, > but it's actually ternary. Actually, it's not even ternary, but to the return value should only be handled in terms of >0, ==0, <0. Ah, and if "!" implies a boolean, then why is "!!" a common construct? Because "!" really does not imply a boolean. Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html