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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:03:06 +1000
Subject: Re: I have tried and errored a reasonable amount of times
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> although the
> analogy is terrible for =E2=88=A8. 1+1 =3D 2, not 1.

I wouldn't say terrible. Unclear perhaps, but functional. Try this exercise=
:

false, true =3D 0, 1 # or use an old Python
if true + true:
    print("true OR true is true")

As long as you accept that any non-zero value is true, and as long as
'and' and 'or' are the only operations you use (you can add 'not' as
long as it's defined the same way: "false if x else true"), addition
for or works fine.

ChrisA