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Wilfred Hughes

Apr 5, 2014 at 13:01

After some soul-searching, I'm removing truthiness from Trifle lisp: https://github.com/Wilfred/trifle/commit/f3e0d0f42440304302c651a3a63b49cb8ffde9f7

Changing `if` to require the condition to be a boolean instead of a · Wilfred/trifle@f3e0d0f

Changing `if` to require the condition to be a boolean instead of a · Wilfred/trifle@f3e0d0f

&#39;truthy&#39; value. This has several advantages. Firstly, it makes a type checker more useful since previously the condition to `if` could be any type. Secondly, it&#39;s more explicit. Compa...