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		eru on Sept 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urbit: an operating function How about not using numbers for Booleans?

api on Sept 27, 2015 [–]

CPUs grok numbers. This would be inefficient.

eru on Sept 28, 2015 | [–]

Oh, you can use numbers behind the scenes. Just make sure your type system hides the ugly truth.

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