Re: C Questions

pete said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

! yields 0 if its (numeric!) operand is non-zero, and 1 otherwise.

! yields 0 if its scalar operand does not compare equal to zero,
and 1 otherwise.

Oh yes, you can do !p, can't you? I see that as being rather silly, but
you're quite right that it's legal. I'm not sure that I see the
distinction between "is non-zero" and "does not compare equal to zero". I
consider them to be equivalent statements.

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