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		pcmonk on Sept 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urbit: an operating function This is exactly the way it's used in shell scripting, and honestly, it's more useful that way for us because it makes booleans default to true instead of false. If we're going to redo everything, we may as well do it right this time.

minitech on Sept 25, 2015 [–]

> This is exactly the way it's used in shell scripting

You say that like it’s a good thing.

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