Why is boolean true represented as -1?

[User 12941702]

I just wrote a program and used the BoolToStr() function to convert the boolean value true to a string so I could read it in a WriteLn statement. Much to my surprise the screen represented true as -1. Can someone explain?

[Lost User]

Because internally they're numbers, no text.

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[User 12941702]

I meant why is boolean true represented as a negative number instead of a positive number. Like in C++ boolean true is represented as 1. But I guess since true is represented by any non-zero integer I can see why -1 works just as good.