Expression can be simplified on list

[Ben Finney]

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 2:25:48 PM UTC+12, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
> > 
> > > It would be better if all such conversions were explicit
> > 
> > Why? It's entirely unambiguous: the expression of an ‘if’ statement
> > *can only be* evaluated in a Boolean context. What else could the
> > reader reasonably expect?
>
> <http://lwn.net/Articles/590299/>

That reference supports my position: The only reasonable interpretation
of the expression specified to ‘if‘, is that it is interpreted in a
Boolean context.

The behaviour described there was a bug. Once recognised, it was fixed.
There isn't any other reasonable interpretation of the expression for
‘if’: it's interpreted as a Boolean value.

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