From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 1/31/2025 5:05 PM, Dan Cross wrote:   
   > In article <679d26bd$0$713$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>,   
   > Arne Vajhøj   wrote:   
   >> But there is no consistency between languages.   
   >>   
   >> $ type dump.for   
   >> [snip]   
   >   
   > I don't know why this should be surprising?   
      
   I don't know if it is surprising, but it is inconsistent.   
      
                     Fortran       Pascal        C          Basic   
   true literal       -1             1      usually 1    usually -1   
   false literal       0             0          0            0   
   test            low bit set  low bit set   not 0        not 0   
      
   4 languages - 4 ways of doing it.   
      
   Arne   
      
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