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boolean blindness

Short description: github.com/quchen/articles/blob/master/algebraic-blindness.md#boolean-blindness
- In programming, there is a common problem known as Boolean Blindness, what it »means« to be True depends heavily on the context, and cannot be inferred by the value alone.
Original source
- Bob Harper says the phrase is from Dan Licata in this post: existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness
- Dan Licata lecture notes that contain the term: www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/previous-semesters/2012-spring/resources/lectures/09.pdf
  - I found the above in this post, which has more discussion: shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/boolean-blindness