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[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's not the truth. It's one of infinitely many truths. They hated him because Jesus didn't understand how implicit type casting between int and bool worked.

[-] owsei@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lambda calculus gang has entered the chat with λx.λy.x as The Truth™

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I told them to leave a pamphlet and fuck off, but the pamphlet was a fixed-point combinator that put them back on my porch again.

[-] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

And then there are things like strcmp() that uses 0 as true. At least it is for a good reason, but still confusing.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I don't find it confusing at all. The function doesn't test equivalence, and the return value is not meant to be a logical value.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

if ((1 > 0) == 1) printf("The OG truth\n");

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