EXPLORATION 12
Conditions and Logic
You first met the bool type in Exploration 2. This type has two possible values: true and false, which are reserved keywords (unlike in C). Although most Explorations have not needed to use the bool type, many have used logical expressions in loop and if-statement conditions. This Exploration examines the many aspects of the bool type and logical operators.
I/O and bool
C++ I/O streams permit reading and writing bool values. By default, streams treat them as numeric values: true is 1 and false is 0. The manipulator std::boolalpha (declared in <ios>, so you get it for free from <iostream>) tells a stream to ...
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