Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>: > For example, see "Concrete Mathematics" (Knuth, Graham and > Patashnik), where treating a true/false result as 1/0 is so common > it's indicated merely by surrounding a predicate expression with > plain square brackets. The fact that they use a notation for that at all suggests that even they didn't go so far as to regard booleans as *identical* to integers. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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