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by alberto-m 134 days ago
> one could make the case for true being all bits set

Historical note: this was the case in QBasic, where true was defined as -1.
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Joker_vD 134 days ago
There, apparently, were quite a number of ISAs where checking the sign bit was more convenient (performant?) than checking (in)equality with zero.
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jabl 133 days ago
Some Fortran compilers also did this. MS Powerstation Fortran at least, IIRC.
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