Does anyone remember an old blog post where someone used various Python language hacks to override boolean primitives, such that the statement false == true evaluated as true? I’m 90% sure it was python, but maybe it was some other language.

I’ve been looking for that post recently, but haven’t had any luck.

Thanks to antagonistic for finding it! I guess it was less of an “exploit”, and more of a “please don’t touch the loaded foot-gun”

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    12 hours ago

    The builtin names are True and False and they became keywords a while back. true and false are just ordinary variables that you can set to whatever you want.

    Meanwhile, in Forth:

    : 2 3 ; \ define 2 as 3
    2 2 + .  6 ok   \ shows that 2+2 is now 6