Re: Why is booleanp defined this way?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> Elisp does not have a proper boolean type; unlike say symbols with
> symbolp, strings with stringp, numberp -- some union of numeric types etc.
> However programmers need boolean in their ontology even if (and even more if)
> the language does not support it.

Well, if you go this way, elisp doesn't have proper types at all!!!

deftype, typep, subtypep are all defined in cl.el and as such, "frowned
upon" by the PTB.

> I'd say booleanp is a hesitant step towards supporting boolean in the ontology
> without supporting it in the language.

Let's go boldly where no other elispers has ever gone:

   (deftype boolean () `(member t nil))
   (defun booleanp (x) (typep x 'boolean))



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