Re: Preferred way to toggle BOOL?
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:28:58 +0100, "Giovanni Dicanio"
<giovanniDOTdicanio@REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote:
I think that it makes sense for Win32 API to use BOOL, because Win32 API has
a pure C interface (however, probably some parts of it are implemented in
C++), and C does not have 'bool' keyword.
But don't you think that it would be good for MFC and ATL (being them *C++*
frameworks/libraries) to just use 'bool' ?
Why do they use BOOL? Historical reasons? But I would think it's time to
move things forward...
I'm curious: when you build C++ software on MFC, do you use BOOL or 'bool'
to store booleans? I try to use 'bool' wherever I can...
I use bool wherever there's a choice (and disable the "performance" warning
about bool as SOP), but to some extent, that reflects my C++ bias, i.e. "I
want to use a proper bool type rather than the crufty old BOOL." However,
if I encountered an MFC class library that exclusively used BOOL in its
public interface, I'd find it hard to fault the author for doing this,
because there are cases where you *have* to use BOOL, and he would
definitely win the "consistency" argument. If he stuck with CException*,
I'd find that even harder to criticize, because it's a real pain to deal
with libraries that don't (e.g. the Standard C++ Library).
--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP
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