Re: [naviserver-devel] [naviserver-commits] naviserver/nsd tclconf.c, 1.5, 1.6

[Vasiljevic Z. <zv...@ar...>]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:14 PM, Stephen Deasey wrote:

>
> {$bool == 1} is not a valid test of truthiness.

... so Tcl and C are "broken"?

>
>
> And it's uneccessary:
>
> set bool 1
> if {$bool} {
>    puts yup
> }
>
> set bool yes
> if {$bool} {
>    puts $yup
> }

It is not but it is widely used. When Tcl disallows us
to use 1/0 for true/false and test on 1/0 equality for
it, then we can talk more about it.

Cheers
Zoran