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that's true (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

if ((1 > 0) == 1)
printf("The OG truth\n");

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lambda calculus gang has entered the chat with λx.λy.x as The Truth™

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I told them to leave a pamphlet and fuck off, but the pamphlet was a fixed-point combinator that put them back on my porch again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week 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.