At 7:04 PM -0800 2/18/2006, Scott Rossi wrote:
Why is it not possible to substitute 1 and 0 for true and false? Is this
possible and I've just never seen it? Has no one ever needed this option?
It goes back to the way xTalks handle values. True and false are
strings, not numbers (the constant true has value "true", and
likewise for false). This is how boolean values are reported
throughout the language, as the strings "true" or "false".
I suppose xTalks could special-case equalities by making the string
"true" equal the string "1", and "false" equal "0", but it would be
kind of opaque to scripters, I think. (Handy, but hard to
understand.)
--
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jaedworks.com
I guess that using explicit strings for true/false can have to do
with HyperTalk, the mother tongue of xTalks, being developed when
Pascal was the standard programming langauge. Personally, I find the
C concept of equating any non-zero number to true somewhat silly
albeit practical in that terse language.
Robert
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