No Such Thing
Doug Gwyn <gwyn>
gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Fri Aug 23 07:55:36 AEST 1985
> Flame On! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BOOLEAN!!! Flame Off.
There is no such thing as an integer, either. So what.
Booleans are not an "outmoded concept". They form a different
algebraic system (a lattice) than real numbers (a field) and
have different uses, both conceptually and formally.
I object to mapping everything into arithmetic terms.
Not everything in the universe is arithmetic.
I don't understand the point of explaining how C maps
natural booleans into arithmetic terms; that is just
what I am complaining about.
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