OP_0 gives a zero length byte array because OP_0 == 0x00 which is equivalent to 
pushdata with zero length.

OP_EQUAL compares byte strings as-is. So it will push "false" because empty 
string is not the same as a single-byte string with 0x00 byte in it. Value 
"false" in turn is encoded as empty string, just like result of OP_0.

> On 06 Nov 2015, at 10:37, Tier Nolan via bitcoin-dev 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I meant not to use the OP_PUSH opcodes to do the push.
> 
> Does OP_0 give a zero length byte array?
> 
> Would this script return true?
> 
> OP_0
> OP_PUSHDATA1 (length = 1, data = 0)
> OP_EQUAL
> 
> The easiest definition is that OP_0 and OP_1 must be used to push the data 
> and not any other push opcodes.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Oleg Andreev <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> > One and zero should be defined as arrays of length one. Otherwise, it is 
> > still possible to mutate the transaction by changing the length of the 
> > array.
> >
> > They should also be minimally encoded but that is covered by previous rules.
> 
> These two lines contradict each other. Minimally-encoded "zero" is an array 
> of length zero, not one. I'd suggest defining this explicitly here as 
> "IF/NOTIF argument must be either zero-length array or a single byte 0x01".
> 
> 
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