Re: Nil and false in Lua design

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2013/10/14 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:

> Except that there are hundreds of thousands of lines out there that do
> 'if val' assuming that nil evaluates to false. There's really only two
> cases - it's not like C./Python where you have to consider zero as
> well.  And languages which think that '' is false rightly deserve our
> scorn.

Python considers empty lists, tuples and dicts to be false too, and
in general seems to have a false element in almostt every type.
It's one of those things that divide people into lovers and haters.