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emmelaich
on Sept 26, 2015
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Urbit: an operating function
I call it the Tolstoy model:
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
You only need one value for success/true. But you need many to indicate the modes of failure.
eru
on Sept 27, 2015
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How about not using numbers for Booleans?
api
on Sept 27, 2015
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CPUs grok numbers. This would be inefficient.
eru
on Sept 28, 2015
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Oh, you can use numbers behind the scenes. Just make sure your type system hides the ugly truth.
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