Re: Separate "as" keyword? (Re: 'is' and action at a distance)

[Damian Conway]

Bart wrote:

   > >While I understand how "0 but true" is a cute hack that is destined to
   > >be replaced by a truth property, I fail to realize how it's useful to
   > >have a value that's true no matter what value you assign to it later.
   > 
   > I thought the "truth" property was attached to the value, not to the
   > variable. So if you assign a new value to that variable, the truth
   > property is overwritten, too.

Yep.

Damian