Expression can be simplified on list

[Ben Finney]

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 2:33:40 PM UTC+12, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> > Why do you object to the type conversion to bool?
>
> It would be better if all such conversions were explicit

Why? It's entirely unambiguous: the expression of an ‘if’ statement *can
only be* evaluated in a Boolean context. What else could the reader
reasonably expect?

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Ben Finney