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		renata on June 2, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding style and undoing indentation hell In C at least, pushbutton could be strictly greater than one and still be treated as true, but that would be a different result in the arithmetic versions of the statement. It could be made identical by using "!!pushbutton".

robomartin on June 3, 2012 [–]

I think you might be taking what was intended to be a simple example a little too far.

That said, "pushbutton" could very well be limited to the values 0 and 1 during the keypad scanning, debouncing and decoding code.

Chill bro.

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