> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Whipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 5:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: definitions of truth
>
> "Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > This is Perl 6. Everything is an object, or at least pretends to be
> one.
> > Everything has a .boolean method that returns 0 or 1. All conditionals
> > call the .boolean method, at least in the abstract.
>
> My reading of A12 leads me to expect this to be defined as a coercion,
> using
> the "as" operator, not "dot":
>
> $foo as boolean
>
> What am I missing?
Why not just use say
?$foo
Isn't the prefix ? operator designed specifically for this use?
Joe Gottman
