Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?

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.
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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