[Tutor] “has a value of True” versus “evaluates true”

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Thu Nov 13 21:40:09 CET 2014


Danny Yoo <dyoo at hashcollision.org> writes:

> >> To quote: "Let your statement be: 'Yes, yes', or "no, no': anything
> >> beyond these is of evil."
> >
> > "Have you stopped abusing small children yet?"
>
> :(
>
> I don't understand what your response here means.

He's pointing out that many questions that ask a yes-or-no question
can't actually be truthfully answered “yes, yes”, nor “no, no”.

It seems you demonstrated his point quite well :-)

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  `\     Perl!”. Now they have some number of problems but they're not |
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Ben Finney



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