Larry wrote:
$z = 0 but true;
I'm not even particularly upset by this:
my bool $x = $z;# $x == 1
Yep, that's all I mean. I just want things like:
my bool $lit = ($light eq on);
if $lit { ... }
to work such that (1) 'bool' always stores the truth of the
Michael Lazzaro wrote:
Agreed: the value of comparing a boolean with anything else is not
particularly sensible in *any* language.
It isn't particularly unsensible in PHP.
PHP only has one equality operator. If its operands are of different
types then it casts one operand to match the other,
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 08:02 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
When someone asks what's the boolean type in Perl? I'd rather
answer bit than Perl doesn't have one, if for no other reason
than the latter answer will completely freak them out. :-)
Why? Plenty of languages get along just fine
David Wheeler [mailto:david;wheeler.net] wrote:
The problem with this is that you have explicitly introduced true and
false into the language, and have therefore destroyed the utility of
context:
my boolean $bool = 0; # False.
my $foo = ''; # False context.
if ($foo eq
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 01:38 PM, David Whipp wrote:
Presumably, there exist rules for implicit casting when
comparing objects of different types. If we have a rule
My initial assumption is that nothing would change. Namely, ==
compares numerically, eq compares strings, and '?'
See
http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals;perl.org/msg11308.html
for a closely-related discussion.
/s
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, David Whipp wrote:
In Perl6, everything is an object. So almost everything is
neither a number nor a string. It probably doesn't make sense
to cast things to
On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
Q: Can bits/bools be undefined?
Perl conventions would indicate yes.
IIRC, native data types, which are all lowercase (e.g., int, bit, long,
etc.) cannot be undef. However, their class equivalents (e.g., Int,
Bit, Long,
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: While writing documentation: a trivial question on the boolean type,
: Cbit:
Please don't think of Cbit 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
