Re: comparing elements of vector<int> and list<int>

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:59:32 -0000
Message-ID:
<1192049972.730404.136610@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 10, 4:23 pm, Marjancek <marjan...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Oct 10, 2:23 am, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@taeus.com> wrote:

In article <pan.2007.10.10.05.00.52.70...@ippimail.com>,
arn...@ippimail.com says...

    [...]

static char const *strings[] = {
        "VECTOR and LIST are NOT equal",
        "VECTOR and LIST are EQUAL"
};

std::cout << strings[result] << std::endl;


'True' is not always 1,


In C++ it is. The standard requires it.

it would be safer to do

std::cout << strings[result ? 1 : 0] << std::endl;


If the type being tested is not a bool, then something like:

    std::cout << strings[ result != 0 ] << std::endl ;

might be appropriate. But for a bool, true is guaranteed to
convert to 1, and false to 0.

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