FEATURE: Truthiness and Comparison Semantics

Field	Value
Version	20260822 V1
Description	Define jq truthiness, equality, inequality, and total value ordering.
Depends On	ARCHITECTURE.md, FEATURE-CORE-003.md
Provides	truthiness, equality, inequality, comparison ordering
Consumes	ordered generator evaluator

Programmatic Acceptance

=== AC core-004-conformance ===
Intent: The executable evaluates jq truthiness, equality, inequality, and ordering semantics.
Suite: scoped

import subprocess

def run(program, input_text="null\n"): return subprocess.run( ["./jq", "-c", program], input=input_text, capture_output=True, text=True, )

assert run("false, null, 0, 1 | if . then 1 else 0 end").stdout == "0\n0\n1\n1\n" assert run("1 == 1.0").stdout == "true\n" assert run("true == 1").stdout == "false\n" assert run("[1,2] < [1,3]").stdout == "true\n" === END AC core-004-conformance ===

User Acceptance

None.

Guardrails

Only false and null are falsey.
Structural comparisons must be independent of object key insertion order.