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Re: Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table.

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On Fri, 29 May 2015 11:41:38 +0000 (UTC), alister
<alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> declaimed the following:

>On Fri, 29 May 2015 13:48:55 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
>>> The possibility of spelling these with the comparison operators, as
>>> some have suggested, is a consequence of Python's implementation where
>>> True == 1 and False == 0. In other languages bool may not be relatable
>>> (or at least not orderable), or False may be == -1.
>> 
>> True. That said, though, using 0 for False and 1 for True is easily the
>> most common convention in use today, and the next most likely case is
>> that comparing booleans would give a simple and immediate error. So it's
>> most likely to be safe to do. Cross-language compatibility is a tricky
>> thing anyway; there are all sorts of odd edge cases, even with
>> otherwise-similar languages (Pike and Python, for instance, have
>> slightly different handling of slice ranges), so anything that's done in
>> Python is meant to be interpreted with Python semantics.
>> 
>> ChrisA
>
>in the past True has even been -1 with 0 as false
>(all bits set in a signed integer)

	And in VAX/VMS system return codes, odd numbers were "success/info" and
even numbers "failure/warning" -- and VAX F77 did Boolean tests on just the
least significant bit... So it wasn't even just a case of zero/non-zero.
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Re: Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-29 13:48 +1000
  Re: Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table. alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-05-29 11:41 +0000
    Re: Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table. Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-05-29 08:48 -0400

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