I am going to take this opportunity to note that it has become common practice to assume:
(1) Boolean values are truth values, and (2) Boolean values are not integers, and (3) Boolean values are not probabilities And yet: [a] Probabilities are truth values, and [b] George Boole's algebra was originally about integers All of which shows something about the quality of our educational system, I imagine. -- Raul On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi - > > While looking at the Wikipedia entry on "Boolean data type" recently, I > noticed that the APL family is - as usual - unrepresented. Since I was > looking here because of the maddening arbitrariness with which Booleans are > handled in other languages, it occurs to me that the much cleverer handling > of Booleans characteristic of the APL world should be given a higher > profile. > > So, any ideas on a Wikipedia entry for "APL, J" handling of Booleans? > > Thanks, > > Devon > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
