Amusing, but I feel like that's a terrible way to think about return codes. No e...

lern_too_spel · on April 5, 2015

Any other interpretation of his program goes against decades of Unix convention. http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_07_01.htm...

Dylan16807 · on April 6, 2015

Ehhh, "if" is a bit of a specialized case. In general programs don't map fully to true/false, just leave it as "error code".

It's not that we should use any other interpretation, it's that that interpretation is only mostly true. Don't overgeneralize lest you introduce mistakes.