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On 6/25/22 16:13, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans pointed to his article saying:
> no boolean is ever ≡ to any non-boolean
On this point I disagree.
Rant (the longer): The whole "let's spell the logical 0, basis of the
binary number system built on Charles Boole's logic, as the letter 'f'
the letter 'a' the letter 'l' the letter 's' the letter 'e' instead of
the number zero" thing is creeping up and its problems will only grow.
In actual machine code, as in C, there is only 0 and 1 for Boolean
logic. Representing a logical value which inside the computer is
identical to a number as an English word is a confusion both in data and
in programming, not to mention it uses 36 bits on average to represent a
1-bit value ('true' or 'false' instead of '0' or '1'). 1 should always
be true, 0 should always be false. That's how we have always written and
conceptualized text and data files, because of their numerical and
electronic (hardware) basis.
Rant (the shorter): Emulating Ruby where 0 is true is not going to do
Perl any favors. [1]
\\/
[1] In Ruby, everything is an object; thus 0 is an object; and all
objects are true. The twisted thought required for this construction
beggars belief.
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