On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > The patch treats any non-zero value as "true". Is that the behavior we
> > want, or should we only allow "1" as an integer representation of
> > "true"? (I'm not sure myself, I just don't think copying C here is
> > necessarily the best guide.)
>
> I would posit that this is the desired behavior as it's consistent with
> every language I can think of.
However, AFAIK it's inconsitent with the type input function which
supports '1' and '0' but not other integers.