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if 1: return True (sh.itjust.works)

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Soy 0 got truthmogged by chad 1 😎

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The not so funny thing is that if you try this in scripting languages -1 and 1 are both truthy so...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Because you need to infer the fuzzy boolean as a type (I personally plan to make one that works between -127 and 127, on integers instead of floats), and then write an interpreter to use the values accordingly.