On 5 October 2012 10:15, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> IMHO it's a shame the latter go for `true' and `false' for Booleans, and
> the Python `reference implementation' laxly takes anything other than
> `true' to be false.
>

..ooOO(( should have picked up on this at the pub...))

Doesn't that position lead to a huge excluded middle, where values are
neither true nor false?

( for comparison Perl can be a minefield, where any of the null string '',
the integer 0, and an undefined value undef are all false.)




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