Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat May 14 17:29:53 EDT 2011

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On 5/14/2011 1:43 PM, rusi wrote:

> But it seems you did not get the moral? Spelt out: "Beware of lossy
> compression!"
> [Which is also the moral of my 'proof']

I get it now. As I suggested in response to Stephen, [] and [1] spell 
False and True only in boolean contexts (if/while headers) where they 
are implicitly wrapped with a bool() call, which is to say, where their 
boolean value is extracted from them. As you point out, there is 
information loss as all other context-irrelevant details are ignored.

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Terry Jan Reedy

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