Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> 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...
Vaguely ugly, but I think it's actually _more clear_ than != 0 in
contexts where the value is already "boolean" in the C zero or not-zero
sense, but you want a "proper" boolean (0 or 1) for some reason.
-miles
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