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Re:The Little Bool of Doom (2025) by alberto-m on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:45AM (#46947457)
> one could make the case for true being all bits set

Historical note: this was the case in QBasic, where true was defined as -1.

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Re:The Little Bool of Doom (2025) by Joker_vD on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:56PM (#46949317)
There, apparently, were quite a number of ISAs where checking the sign bit was more convenient (performant?) than checking (in)equality with zero.
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Re:The Little Bool of Doom (2025) by jabl on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:22PM (#46953041)
Some Fortran compilers also did this. MS Powerstation Fortran at least, IIRC.
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