Operator Precedence/Boolean Logic

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sat Jul 16 12:58:41 EDT 2016


On 2016-07-16 17:27, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:33 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
[snip]

> And yes, Rustom, I'm very familiar with the philosophical objections to the
> something/nothing distinction. "Is zero truly nothing, or is it some thing
> distinct from the absence of any number?" I'm not interested in that
> argument. Let the philosophers count angels, but as far as Python code
> goes, I'm an intuitionist: if I have zero sheep, that's the same as not
> having any sheep, or having no sheep.
>
[snip]

And if you're going to argue that zero is something, then you could also 
argue that false is something...




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