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oh Jesus
did this come full circle?
we used python to query chatgpt to decide if a number is even or odd and return true or false?
True or false or null.
Mathematicians didn't know it yet, but numbers can now be even, odd or neither.
Ah, yes, a three-state boolean.
Even Linus Torvalds prefers an
int-based truthiness toboolNon integers certainly aren't even or odd, so yes?
Yeah, I'm chalking that up to Python's untypedness. I was going to write "integers", but technically that function takes a "num", whatever that is.
For all we know, it could be a string, asking ChatGPT to hack the government. Is that even? Probably no. Or None. Or T-Rex. Without reading the entire function, we don't know that it's not returning T-Rex.
Thankfully, it doesn't matter. Just stick the result into an if-else, then False and None will land you in the else-branch. And both True and our Truthiness-Rex will land you in the if-branch. Just as Guido intended.
...this rant brought to you by trauma.