From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2008-06-29T21:43:58+09:00 Subject: Re: question about defined? and y ------=_Part_3044_8614210.1214743594857 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: > On 29.06.2008 11:18, Marc Heiler wrote: > >> truthy and falsy? >> >> Is this baby-talk? :) >> > > I think it's just the attempt to find words that cannot be confused with > "true" and "false" (the objects). > Well it is that, but... It turns out that the word "truthy" has some history. According to this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness it appears in the O.E.D. along with "Truthiness" which was popularized recently in the US by political satirist Stephen Colbert as a term for the property of something being known instinctively from the (political) "gut" without regard to evidence, or facts. I don't have access to the O.E.D. but my 1978 edition of Webster's New 20th Century Dictionary of the English Languate (unabridged) defines truthy as a dialect variation of truthful. Falsy is just a similar construction, chosen no doubt so as to avoid confusion with falsie a word usually used in the plural which has an entirely different meaning. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ ------=_Part_3044_8614210.1214743594857--