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		samth on Oct 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Dart is not the language of the future. In Scheme/Lisp/Dylan/Racket/Clojure/Your favorite lisp dialect everything except #f is true -- Dart is the other way around.

rayiner on Oct 11, 2011 [–]

Right, it's the opposite convention from Lisp. I'm trying to distinguish from say Perl, which doesn't have a canonical true or false value but identifies a set of things that "seem like they should be false" like 0 and "".

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