On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote: : While writing documentation: a trivial question on the boolean type, : C<bit>:
Please don't think of C<bit> as a boolean type. There is no boolean type in Perl, only a boolean context. Or looking at it from the other direction, *every* type is a boolean type. : Does that mean that an array of bits: : : my bit @bitfield; : : takes up, at minimum, two bits per, um, bit? Just one per. Larry
