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From: Peter Gerwinski
Subject: `True' and `False'
Date: 31 Mar 2003, 16:46:00

Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> When updating the documentation, Peter N Lewis and I came to the
> problem how to describe the Boolean values `True' and `False'.
> 
> Peter suggested "true (conforming to reality) and false (different
> from reality", but I think "reality" is not a good term here (what
> do computer programs have to do with reality, anyway ;-).

What about this?

  "True" stands for a condition which is always fullfilled - such as
  "2 = 2" - and "False" stands for a condition which is never
  fullfilled - such as "1 = 0".

Formally spoken, "condition" ties it "too much" to the usage in "if"
statements etc. - but this is what Boolean values are used for in
reality. ;-)

In order to illustrate that other uses are possible at all, an
example with a Boolean variable should follow.

Just my 2 CentiEuro,

    Peter

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