On 27 February 2015 20:06:25 GMT+00:00, I wrote:
>I mentioned the true and false. OK, so it's a meme, but it's based on a >false (pun intended) understanding of exit status codes. That success >evaluates to true and failure evaluates to false does not mean the >values of truth and falseness are inverted. No programming language >other than that provided by system shells I have used evaluates 0 to >true. I hope the following examples from bash illustrate this: $ (( 0 )) && echo success $ (( 1 )) && echo success success $ (( 0 )) ; echo $? 1 $ (( 1 )) ; echo $? 0 Simon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
