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True or false?

2022-03-02 18:22:35.017404+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

RT Kate (Kate fan account)@thingskatedid

do you know why boolean values are represented as the positive integers 0 and 1? and why negative non-zero values are also considered true in languages like C. it turns out there's an interesting historic reason behind it! i will explain! 🧵 1/n

Kate (Kate fan account) @thingskatedid

it's because they've played us for absolute bools

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