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Subject:RE: Lives there a boolean integer? From:"Brady, Joy" <JBrady -at- alldata -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>, "'Mark L. Levinson'" <markl -at- gilian -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Mar 2000 15:38:25 -0500
Mark Levinson wonders: "Should I stand on the principle that an integer is
not boolean?"
It seems that the fields that receive only one of two possible values of
true/false, success/failure are boolean fields. Maybe just refer to the
receiving data element (field, whatever!) as boolean, and that the integers
0 and 1 are the possible values that represent failure and success,
respectively.
