[computer-go] Orego Episode 6 posted

Eric Boesch ericboesch at hotmail.com
Sat Aug 26 16:20:39 PDT 2006


Don Dailey <drd at mit.edu> wrote:
>I've been poking around on the web and do not see any evidence anywhere
>that a relational expression every returned anything other than 0 or 1.
>
>So I guess I was wrong about a==b returning an implementation defined
>value - even with older language standards.  I can only imagine that I
>am remembering the wrong thing from many years ago.

Maybe your memory was right but your source was wrong. There was and is a 
persistent, but as far as I know baseless, rumor that the boolean operators 
could return other values, and I would bet the rumor ended up in print.




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