Unusual comparison behaviors

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@trantor.storm.net)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:17:08 PST


In article <1.5.4b11.32.19960221043347.006697a8@pop.kaiwan.com>,
 <slayer@kaiwan.com> wrote:
>
>object numbers are always false, not true. it's annoying, but I don't know
>why they should be either false or true so they might as well be false.
>

If anything, their truth value should be valid(obj).  This is however
way too late to change.

	-hpa
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