Posted by Paul Lautman on 01/06/08 19:56

Puzzled wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:53:43 +0100,
> Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>Second: If you print out a boolean, its value is automatically
>>converted to a string. How and why this is done is described in the
>>manual:
>>
>>| A boolean TRUE value is converted to the string "1", the FALSE value
>>| is represented as "" (empty string). This way you can convert back
>>| and forth between boolean and string values.
>
> You don't find that a daft convention? It implies that true has
> an integer value that can undergo autoconversion in a string
> context but false has no value and cannot. I can't find any
> sense in that at all.

So define your own language.

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