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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: char to decimal
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Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 05:28 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Yep, these or even better 64 and 43 for true and false, just
>> heaven forbid 1 and 0 - that's so ... boring simple, innit?
> I do believe that as long as I'm using Java booleans, I'll stick with the 
> values 'true' and 'false'.  That seems like the natural mapping to me.

Oh, that must all be a big misunderstanding. I honestly never wanted
to elide these two keywords.  They would make excellent self-speaking 
integer-literals for particular uses. :-)