The Old New Thing

BOOL vs. VARIANT_BOOL vs. BOOLEAN vs. bool

December 22, 2004 Dec 22, 2004 12/22/04

Raymond Chen

Still more ways of saying the same thing. Why so many? Because each was invented by different people at different times to solve different problems. BOOL is the oldest one. Its definition is simply typedef int BOOL; The C programming language uses "int" as its boolean type, and Windows 1.0 was written back when C was the cool ...