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[โ€“] enebe@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sweet Flying Spaghetti Monster, that's horrible. I'm guessing the reason is to keep the truth value equivalent when casting to boolean, but there has to be a more elegant way....

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Might be, but this is also a decent explanation: https://lemmy.ml/post/464637/comment/272066