Re: Separate "as" keyword? (Re: 'is' and action at a distance)

[Bart Lateur]

On Fri, 18 May 2001 23:26:53 +0200, Trond Michelsen wrote:

>While I understand how "0 but true" is a cute hack that is destined to
>be replaced by a truth property, I fail to realize how it's useful to
>have a value that's true no matter what value you assign to it later.

I thought the "truth" property was attached to the value, not to the
variable. So if you assign a new value to that variable, the truth
property is overwritten, too.

Actually, replace "variable" with "lvalue". It could be, say, a hash
element.

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        Bart.