Boolean Expressions

Originally posted on the SCI Programming forum by Gumby

Boolean (true/false) expressions are handled as one might expect, with one subtlety. A value of 'true' is actually the result any expression evaluating to a non-zero value. I believe this is handled the same as most programming languages, but thought it was worth noting anyway.

To illustrate:

Code:

(var x)

= x 0
(if(x)    // evaluates to false
    Print("True: x is non-zero")
)(else
    Print("False: x is zero")   // this will be output
) 

= x 1
(if(x)  // evaluates to true
    Print("True: x is non-zero") // this will be output
)(else
    Print("False: x is zero")
) 

= x 9387
(if(x) // also evaluates to true
    Print("True: x is non-zero") // this will be output
)(else
    Print("False: x is zero")
)