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minus-squareWomble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoEmpty sequences being false goes back a lot further than perl, it was already a thing in the first lisp (in fact the empty list was the cannonical false).
Empty sequences being false goes back a lot further than perl, it was already a thing in the first lisp (in fact the empty list was the cannonical false).