PATCH: Define wildcardp as a macro with strpbrk

[Andreas Schwab]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

> There was no implied smiley; I really am that paranoid.  I fear the
> day someone does "foo_p() != TRUE"

That has always been broken.  C before C99 does not have a true boolean
type.

> and discovers that foo_p() returns FALSE and some random other non-zero
> value that's != TRUE.

Just look at the <ctype.h> isfoo functions.  Many implementations return
arbitrary non-zero values for a true result.

Btw., AFAIK Pascal does not define <> and = for boolean operands.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."