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that's true (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 3 days 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.

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