Make that x - 1 is false y - 1 is true (!)
I must be developing vertical dyslexia or something. --- Greg Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I think that misses the point. It's not an issue of a *variable* > having a value that may be true and may be false, but of a *value* > being neither true nor false. > > > Another (IMO, more problematic) issue is this: If we take 0 to mean > false and non-zerto to mean true, then if x = 1 and y = 2, then we > have > > x is false > y is false > x - 1 is true > y - 1 is false (!) > > so the normal arithmetic operators are not even well-defined over > Boolean values. > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
