In the Lisp communities, truthiness is a very commonly used word because Lisps typically have some specific true / false literals but also equate other things to true and false in conditionals. You'll here Lispers talk about truthy values and falsey values too. And Lisp's been around for over 50 years so there's a lot of precedence:
http://www.google.com/search?q=lisp+truthiness (I see this a lot in the Clojure community) Sean On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Brian Kotek <brian...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sure is a word: > http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/truthiness?region=us > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > >> >> Truthiness is not a word. It may seem like a natural progression, but that >> doesn't make it exist. I stand by my statement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348167 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
