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What are "Boolean contexts"? #3112

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burblebee opened this issue Jul 31, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #3269
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What are "Boolean contexts"? #3112

burblebee opened this issue Jul 31, 2019 · 1 comment · Fixed by #3269
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burblebee commented Jul 31, 2019 •
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In #3015, I ask:

In concepts.tex, we have this wording:
"The \libconcept{boolean} concept specifies the requirements on a type that is usable in Boolean contexts."
What are "Boolean contexts"?

and Casey replies:

"Boolean context" is meaningless fluff which unfortunately can easily be conflated with "contextual conversion to bool". "...specifies the requirements on types of expressions used as predicates in other library concepts." would not be great, but is at least meaningful and won't lead readers astray.

We should fix this.
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Editorial teleconference: "usable in Boolean contexts" -> "usable as a truth value".

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[concept.boolean] Avoid undefined 'Boolean context'. jensmaurer/draft
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