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Boolean vs Bool - What's the difference?

boolean | bool |

As nouns the difference between boolean and bool

is that boolean is (boolean) while bool is (computing|programming) a boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.

As an adjective boolean

is (boolean).

boolean

English

(wikipedia Boolean)

Adjective

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  • Of or pertaining to the work of .
  • (logic, computing) Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

    • Derived terms

    * Boolean algebra * Boolean function * Boolean logic * Boolean ring * Boolean variable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false () value.

    • Synonyms

    * (Boolean variable) flag

    bool

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
  • * 2000 , Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems
    • The base class BitArray acts just like a normal C++ array of bools , although you are of course free to interpret the bits as integers...
  • * 2000 , Herb Sutter, Exceptional C++
    • With an automatic conversion, bools will interfere with overload resolution...
  • * 2007 , Joseph C Rattz, Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008
    • Listing 7-11 shows an example where the initial data type is string, but I will obtain its value as a bool .

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