Time  Nick      Message
00:14 MTDiscord <the4spaceconstants2181> when is nil true
00:58 [MatrxMT] <lazerbeak12345> If you're serious, nil is a constant in lua. Try it in a repl
17:47 jonadab   In some context-oriented languages, it's possible to have an object that evaluates to true in boolean context but to nil or undefined in certain other contexts.
17:47 jonadab   There's a famous quote from Larry Wall, about "1 but false" being the more specialized object.
17:48 jonadab   (And by "famous" in this context, I mean famous among Perl programmers.)