On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 03:31, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 04:10:30 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > BASIC was like that too, although it (at least, the versions I used in > > my childhood) didn't have "True" and "False", you just got the actual > > values -1 and 0. They were the other way around compared to what you're > > saying here though. > > I've see header files from people with boolean envy that are something > like > > #define FALSE 0 > #define TRUE ~FALSE >
Yeah, that's the same logic that BASIC uses: false is zero, and true is the all-ones integer (which, interpreted as a two's complement signed number, is -1). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
