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Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Bruce Hoult <br...@hoult.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:24:29 +1300
Local: Thurs, Nov 29 2001 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: On nil qua false [was: Re: On conditionals]
In article <fbc0f5d1.0111290441.65f3a...@posting.google.com>,
tfb+goo...@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw) wrote: I am heartened to see that you find that disturbing. The risks in Perl > And since we're here there are some other quite popular languages that > have NIL/false-equivalent equations. Like, erm, C and C++ (0 is > false), Python (which makes all sorts of things false like ""), and > Perl (similar rules to Python maybe, certainly "" and 0, and > disturbingly enough also "0"). of real data looking like "false" are immense. I know, because I write a lot of Perl. Most of it is supposed to be "throw away", but we all know what happens to throw-away code ... it comes back to bite your bum a couple of decades later. -- Bruce You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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