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Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?

by chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas. Owens) Oct 16, 2007 at 05:55 AM

On 10/15/07, Michael Barto <mbarto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>  I think in the more newer languages, they have implemented true
booleans.
>  Perl is kind of old school. Pascal defines them as a grandfather of
languages.
>  Therefore as one migrates the languages to a higher levels (e.g.
Perl[n]), they
>  all will end up with a boolean data type. Therefore, I think the $true
and $false
>  is a more consistent method in a multiple languages environments
(particularly
>  doing web things [Java and Javascript] for a consistent set of rules
across the
>  board. Thanks for your input.
snip

Perl 6 will have true boolean values: True and False.  See S02 for
more information.

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S02.html
 




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Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
mbarto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-10-15 13:27:26 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECT  2007-10-15 16:54:08 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
merlyn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-10-16 12:25:29 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
gblackburn@[EMAIL PROTECT  2007-10-15 17:25:23 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
jeremiah@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2007-10-15 23:59:55 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
mbarto@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-10-15 18:20:22 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
douglist@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2007-10-15 19:40:19 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
trey@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (  2007-10-17 12:40:08 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECT  2007-10-16 05:55:15 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
chas.owens@[EMAIL PROTECT  2007-10-16 06:01:02 
Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?
david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2007-10-16 16:19:28 

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