Re: Expression statements

[Martin Guy <martinwguy@...>]

On 8/16/10, Jonathan Castello <twisolar@gmail.com> wrote:
>  In which case, I'm confused. Which language actually makes "" a false value?

Unix shell scripts (or, to be pedantic, the "test" program, a.k.a
"["), where a single string is true if it contains anything. e.g.

if [ "" ]; then
  echo t
else
  echo f
fi

will say "f".  But I can't recommend compiling shell scripts into Lua... :)

    M