Re: [Pyobjc-dev] caution with BOOL parameters

[Chris R. <cp...@em...>]

Bob--

On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 01:35  PM, Bob Pasker wrote:
> if you try to pass an int whose magnitude is greater than can
> be stored in a char (-256/+255), then you will get
> 	objc.error: depythonifying 'char', got int of wrong magnitude
> for example, with a table with greater than 255 rows, the following
> will fail:
>     self.theButton.setEnabled_(self.theTableView.numberOfRows())
> but
>     self.theButton.setEnabled_(self.theTableView.numberOfRows() != 0)
> works as expected.

But isn't the latter MUCH more clearly expressive of what you're doing? 
I think the first is the typical C-style "pun" and is an abomination...

Cheers!
--Chris Ryland / Em Software, Inc. / www.emsoftware.com