1.4 Boolean Values
HLA and the HLA Standard Library provide limited support for boolean objects. You can declare boolean variables, use boolean literal constants, use boolean variables in boolean expressions, and you can print the values of boolean variables.
Boolean literal constants consist of the two predefined identifiers true and false. Internally, HLA represents the value true using the numeric value 1; HLA represents false using the value 0. Most programs treat 0 as false and anything else as true, so HLA's representations for true and false should prove sufficient.
To declare a boolean variable, you use the boolean data type. HLA uses a single byte (the least amount of memory it can allocate) to represent boolean values. The following example ...
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