#1965: rational.pmc's get_bool is backwards and not portable
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Reporter: doughera | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: none | Version: 2.11.0
Severity: medium | Keywords:
Lang: | Patch: new
Platform: |
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Comment(by plobsing):
Replying to [ticket:1965 doughera]:
> The basic question is this: Why not compare with 0/1? This is at least
reasonably analagous to what the get_bool vtable does for integers, and
avoids any corner cases with 0/0.
A more fundamental question is: why do we want a get_bool() vtable on
rationals? simply because we can?
get_bool() on integer only makes sense because of the pervasive legacy of
C and its idioms. Extending this to rationals doesn't make a lot of sense
to me.
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