boolean values in krb5.conf

[Derek Atkins]

Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:

> On 02/08/2014 04:51 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
>> at src/util/profile/prof_get.c#L337. So the opposite of "t" is "nil"
>> instead of "f". Is there a history here?
>
> Yeah, in LISP, nil is the empty list, which is the only value which
> evaluates as false, and t is a boolean true.
>
> Did you run into a case where someone expected "f" to work as a boolean
> false value?

In scheme it's '#f' -- nil is... different.  C.f:

guile> (if #f 1 2)
2
guile> (if #t 1 2)
1
guile> nil 
ERROR: Unbound variable: nil
ABORT: (unbound-variable)


-derek
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