BOOL vs Boolean

Question

What is the difference between BOOL and Boolean in Objective C ?

Does it matter which one is used?

If not, why do they both exist?

Thanks

possible duplicate of [Objective-C : BOOL vs bool](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/541289/objective-c-bool-vs-bool) — Matthew Vines, Jan 12 '11 at 22:11

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '11 at 22:15

There's no functional difference¹ between Objective-C's BOOL data type and the various flavors of boolean types provided by, e.g., stdbool.h for C. However, idiomatic Objective-C code uses the BOOL type (and the values YES and NO) for boolean values.

^{1. There are some differences. For example, a BOOL is actually a signed char, whereas (on my machine) stdbool.h defines _Bool_ and bool to be an int.}

BOOL vs Boolean

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