bool != bool

[Oromis]

What is difference between the those two codesnippets (first one doesn't work, second does)?

bool status = true;

//---------------
//doesn't work:
if (CONDITION)
{
    status != status;
}

//---------------
//does work:
if (CONDITION)
{
    if (status)
    {
        status = false;
    }
    else
    {
        status = true;
    }
}

Thanks for an explanation (especially about why the first won't work).

[guestgulkan]

The first one does not work as expected because != is NOT an assignment operator like +=.

!= is the NOT EQUAL test (and returns true or false)

To swap/toggle the state of the status, you can use

status = !status

[Oromis]

Ah, thanks :)

[riper]

may be you want mean this

status = !status ; // there is an space between = and ! , is quite different from next line
status =! status ;

[Bazzy]

=! is not a C++ operator so writing
status = !status and status =! status
is the same thing

[seymore15074]

...only slightly less clear. I like to use whitespace for clarity, even if it is something small like that. No big deal really, though; both compile and do the same thing.