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    <p>Hello Federico,</p>
    <p>I agree with you that this would make more sense.<br>
      Could such a change be implemented for a point release?<br>
      I assume it would introduce some bugs in existing code relying on
      the (unusual) double output...</p>
    <p>Antoine<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/02/2021 03:24, Federico Miyara
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      Dear all,<br>
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      <font face="Courier New">I had already mentioned this a while ago
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mailinglists.scilab.org/Scilab-users-exists-yields-double-tt4039853.html"
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        but as I guess we are in the update season, it would be good
        opportunity to fix this (if there isn't strong opposition, or a
        good reason for this behavior, of course).<br>
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        I'm referring to the fact that the function exists() should by
        nature yield a Boolean result such as T or F. However, it yields
        1 or 0. While this is not a big deal, similar functions
        performing a binary decision on their arguments, such as
        isreal(), isvector(), isfile() and many others, yield Boolean
        results.  <br>
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        Regards,<br>
        <br>
        Federico Miyara  </font><br>
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