0 == False but [] != False?

[Donn Cave]

In article <cd2dnRy_aJMF78HbnZ2dnUVZ_t7inZ2d at speakeasy.net>,
 Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:

> Donn Cave wrote:
> 
> > Not that it is of no historical interest to review all these
> > reasonable arguments, but allow me to restore the context quote
> > from my follow-up:
> 
> If the counterpoints are of no historical interest, then the original 
> point must be of no historical interest either, since it was not widely 
> granted as true.

"Not that it is of no historical interest" may have been too
hard to follow, my apologies.  I should have said "It may be of
historical interest ...".  After that, you lost me, but I guess
I'm not going to worry about it.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu