Re: Memo on coding practices: strcmp() does not yield bool - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> I've occasionally griped that I do not like the coding practice of
> writing
>     if (strcmp(foo, bar))
> to mean
>     if (strcmp(foo, bar) != 0)

Why not define a macro to avoid the urge to take shortcuts like that in
the future?

#define streq(a,b) (strcmp((a), (b))==0)

This is guaranteed to yield 1 or 0, and it's very readable.


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