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"bool" is not "standard" C/C++ type

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when "condition" such as in "if(condition)" evaluates to true , it is binary zero

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thus if(condition == 0) would make better sense then if(condition)

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most "well written functions return x" , x being mostly zero when function is successful
when function fails – the return value is (generally) -1 or positive value identifying the error
then same as above - if(function (z) == 0) should prevail.

(Some) 'functions', yes, 'well written functions', no. To return an integer value of 0 as a sign of successfully finishing a function used to be the standard 30 years ago, because, most of the time, there was only one case of 'success' you were interested in, but potentially many cases os 'not success'. Since the type bool didn't exist back then, integers were used instead, and that opened the opportunity to use return values as error codes, where an error code of 0 was generally considered 'success'.

Then, when the first attempts were made to introduce boolean types into the language (typically impementation-dependent), some people tried to adapt to this change by declaring the integer value of 1 as indicating success in functions that only ever returned 'success' or 'failure', rather than an error code.

Unfortunately, that led to some confusion from the camp of programmers who liked the ability of returning various different error codes. This led to some unholy alliance of the different paradigms, where a value of 1, or, in fact, every positive value, was considered success, whereas negative values were considered error codes.

These different methods of returning integer values with the dual meaning of 'success/'failure', as well as an error code has survived til today. But nowadays, the correct way to report an error is throwing an exception, not returning a value! This lets you use the return value in the original sense of a function: returning the result of the operation.
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