Question about bool and boolean

[Arnold]

Hi Charles,

in the past you changed the value of true to -1 sometime. This makes sense to me:

Code: OxygenBasic

1. uses console
2.  
3. printl "true = "true
4. printl "not true = " not true
5. printl "not false "  not false
6. printl
7. printl "not 1 = " not 1
8.  
9. printl "Enter ..." : waitkey
10.  

Some languages define true as a value of 1. Will it be safe if I use: % true=1 in the beginning of my code?

I noticed that there are the types bool and boolean. I assume there is no difference between these two types?

Roland

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Roland,

Glad you raised this subject. In the new o2, true will have a value of 1 by default. Comparators (A>B) will also return 1 when true.

I'm using the MS interpretation of Bool and Boolean:
Bool is 32bit (generally preferred)
Boolean is 8bit

Currently, they are pseudo-types. To be truly boolean they should be masked to 1bit.