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Booleans as numeric values
Hi all,
in twine, are the numeric values of "true" and "false" guaranteed to be 1 and 0 respectively? I know that in some other languages, you only know that "true" is nonzero.
The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to do something like this:
The alternative would be to do
I am using Twine 2.0.11 and Sugarcube 2.14 if that matters.
in twine, are the numeric values of "true" and "false" guaranteed to be 1 and 0 respectively? I know that in some other languages, you only know that "true" is nonzero.
The reason I'm asking is that I'm trying to do something like this:
<<set $kindness to $walked_dog + 2*$fed_horse + 5*$rescued_kitten>>and I would like to be sure that the result will be 8 if those three things are true, no matter what computer this game is played on.
The alternative would be to do
<<set $kindness to 0>> <<if $walked_dog>><<set $kindness += 1>><</if>>and so on, but that's horrendous and I'd rather not have to.
I am using Twine 2.0.11 and Sugarcube 2.14 if that matters.
Comments
Why do something in multiple lines if I can do it elegantly in one line? Not to mention having to wrap it in <<silently>> to avoid lots of unwanted white space, and that would be even more clutter.
Now, to what you really want to know. When boolean values are coerced into numbers, true should yield the value 1 and false the value 0. Thus, yes, what you're attempting to do there should work.
Coercing in the opposite direction is not so clear cut, as while the number 0—and NaN—does coerce to false, all non-zero numbers coerce to true.