Re: Nil and false in Lua design

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, list!
>
> As we all know and learned to love, in Lua nil and false are false,
> and everything else is not.
>
> I vaguely remember reading years ago that this is so for historical
> reasons (Lua prior to 5.0 didn't have false), and if the language was
> designed from scratch as it is now, it would be different in this
> matter. (I think that this was said by someone from the Lua Team.)
>
> But I can't google up where did I read it...
>
> Does anyone else remember such reference?
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander.
>

I don't remember such a reference, but I can't imagine a system in
which nil ISN'T falsy...

/s/ Adam