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Re:Literals in Programming Languages by jonsen on Thursday February 28, 2013 @03:27AM (#5297710)
So in fact you believed it was false before true then ;-)
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Re:Literals in Programming Languages by ibotty on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:52AM (#5297964)
well i believed that they are not ordered. (which they are not in some languages)
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Re:Literals in Programming Languages by tantalor on Thursday February 28, 2013 @10:04AM (#5298915)
That's what I thought, but it appears truth values are typically defined with a partial ordering a <= b iff a && b == a, which gives false <= false < true <= true.

You could choose to ignore that partial ordering at your own peril.

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