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In article <GJR.92Dec11230751@chamarti.ai.mit.edu>, gjr@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Guillermo J. Rozas) writes:
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> The alpha has those too, but that is not the issue.  If I remember
> correctly, all odd integer values were considered true in BLISS, and
> all even values false.  Using test-for-zero for boolean tests only
> works if zero is the unique representation for one of the boolean
> values (as in C), but this is neither inherent nor clearly superior.

Close, but you have fallen into the hole that the BLISS spec trys to avoid.
The value of the fullword is irrelevent, only the low bit counts. Its value as
an int or float or char is irrelevent to the true/false test. Note that the
odd/even true/false mapping fails with floats or scaled quantities.

~Paul