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==Icon uses boolean datatypes==
'move(1)' must return something coerced to a boolean for the if statement/expression to work on its return value. In fact, their are more conditionals, so things are getting coerced to booleans there too. I think the problem statement could prove tough to tie down ;-) <br> --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]]
Yet more. From the Icon comments:
:''move(1) - succeeds/fails ...''
So move is a conditional itself. Which is not allowed. So the Icon example does not meet the conditions of the task statement!?
The language of the task is very loose and seems to be set up to dazzle students unwilling to argue a point when learning a new language. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 19:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
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