[Haskell-cafe] What puts False before True?

Steve Schafer steve at fenestra.com
Thu May 31 22:07:29 EDT 2007


On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:51:20 -0700, you wrote:

>I think it's mathematical convention more than the C convention Haskell
>is agreeing with.

I think so, too. In Boolean algebra (which predates computers, much less
C), FALSE has traditionally been associated with 0, and TRUE with 1. And
since 1 > 0, TRUE > FALSE.

Steve Schafer
Fenestra Technologies Corp.
http://www.fenestra.com/


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