Break and Continue: While Loops

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 05:32 pm, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> On Thursday, June 23, 2016 at 11:58:01 PM UTC+12, Jon Ribbens wrote:
>> I seem to recall that Java originally insisted that only booleans
>> (excluding even Booleans, which are a different thing because of
>> course they are) could be checked for truth and it was one of
>> Java's significant warts.
> 
> Java’s wart was it didn’t implement Booleans the way they were done in
> Pascal. That wouldn’t have been a wart.

Oh? How are Java booleans different from Pascal booleans?

Are you referring to "boxed" booleans, i.e. native bools in an object
wrapper?





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Steven
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