shorthand c++ if else statement

Question

So I\'m just curious if there is a short hand statement to this:

if(number < 0 )
  bigInt.sign = 0;
else
  bigInt.sign = 1;

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Answer 1

Depending on how often you use this in your code you could consider the following:

macro

#define SIGN(x) ( (x) >= 0 )

Inline function

inline int sign(int x)
{
    return x >= 0;
}

Then you would just go:

bigInt.sign = sign(number);