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From: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:34:13 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> >  > Ask a hundred random C programmers what "!!x" means, versus what "x != 0"
> >  > means, and time their replies.
> > 
> >  I've always thought of "!!" as the "canonicalize boolean" operator...
> 
> Me too.  Once you get used to it, it's just the "convert non-zero to 1"
> operator.
> 
> But whatever.

I call it "truth value" (true or false), but once I got used to it,
I thought it was OK too.

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~Randy