Re: Zero as False

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Nov 19, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:

>> On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As has been noted, I don’t think “0 == false” should be true anyway .. in current Lua “nil == false” is also false. It’s important not to confuse “false-ness” with the value “false”.
>> 
>> —Tim
> 
> Personally, I believe 0 should be equal to false and everything else should be equal to true. nil, being a special case, is false when compared to anything else other than nil.
> 
> In all my experience coding the values 0 and 1 have pretty much been the definitions of false and true. So having 0 == false, to me, just makes sense, and makes everything work as I would expect it to.
> 
> I appreciate your position, though I think I will be sticking with the patch as-is for LUNiA, I like my numeric zeros to be equivalent to boolean false in every way. :)
> 
> ~pmd~
> 
> 

So, playing devil’s advocate a bit then .. what reason is there to even keep a boolean type in your Lua derivation? Aren’t you moving bit-by-bit to the C definition of true/false?

—Tim