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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: char to decimal
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Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On May 5, 3:56 pm, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
> wrote:
>> Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
>>> There are several different ways of mapping between the
>>> two Boolean values and integers,
>> One of which Java happens to have chosen already,
>> just for "internal use only."
> Two values are defined for "public use" - 1231 and 1237

A good one :-)
And while we're at it, we'll revolutionize maths by coming up
with a new field theory whose two operations have 1231 and 1237
as their respective neutral elements...

> (java.lang.Boolean's hashcode()). I think they should take
> precedence over any "internal use only" values.

Yep, these or even better 64 and 43 for true and false, just 
heaven forbid 1 and 0 - that's so ... boring simple, innit?