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Re: Removing true and false



i agree with Loren and Arnold.  true and false are there for clarity.
{} and {!}, while correct, are hard to read.

if you dislike the idea of including true and false because they make
es programs easier to read, think of them as builtin equivalents of
/bin/true and /bin/false, just much faster, along the lines of echo.

they will not, however, continue to be implemented as $&true and $&false.
how they appear in initial.es is not a big deal, so i'll probably use
Harald's very concise definitions there, because they have the advantage
of not having to explicitly say ``0 is true and 1 is false.''

paul