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capableweb on May 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is zero not falsy in Clojure? (2015)

You're talking about hard true/false, in which you are correct. The person you're replying to is talking about "Truthy"/"Falsy", which is different than the hard true/false you're talking about.

happytoexplain on May 21, 2022 [–]

I read the parent as, slightly sarcastically, saying "it's easiest to reason when the concept of truthy/falsy is completely absent".

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