Re: Zero as False

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Paige DePol once stated:
>> > On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > As has been noted, I don’t think “0 == false” should be true anyway .. in current Lua “nil == false” is also false. It’s important not to confuse “false-ness” with the value “false”.
>>
>> Upon further reflection, and a good night sleep, I now see what you mean,
>> Tim. :)
>>
>> I have made it so that boolean true/false should be false when compared to
>> numbers. Numeric 0 will still result in a false value when used in
>> expressions, but when compared to an actual boolean value, it will return
>> false.
>
>   Okay, so what happens here?
>
>         function set_timeout(timeout)
>           local timeout = timeout or math.huge
>
>           -- rest of function
>         end
>
>         set_tiemout(0)
>
>   Have I set the timeout to 0, or math.huge?
>
>   -spc
>

You've set it to math.huge, but Paige already said that Lunia isn't
going to support the idiomatic use of and/or for that.

/s/ Adam