NPR puzzle

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Mark,

Strictly speaking, anything "not TRUE" is "FALSE" is correct:

on mouseUp
   local xyz
   put 1234 into xyz
   if not xyz then put false
   else put true
end mouseUp

And you tried anything "FALSE" is "not TRUE" :-)

Le 22 juil. 05 à 17:31, Mark Wieder a écrit :

> By that reasoning, anything not TRUE is FALSE. Carried to its logical
> conclusion,
>
> on mouseUp
>   local xyz
>
>   put 1234 into xyz
>   if xyz is false then
>     put "xyz evaluates to FALSE"
>   else
>     put "xyz evaluates to TRUE"
>   end if
> end mouseUp
>
> should provide "FALSE", since 1234 isn't FALSE. Obviously this doesn't
> happen. There's nothing you can put into xyz other than "false" that


Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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