Re: "0", true or false? (was: PERL6STORM #0052)

[Nathan Wiger]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
> 
> Bart Lateur wrote:
> 
> > Bitwise and, or and xor do distinguish strings from numbers, and return
> > entirely different kinds of results. Why can't anything else?
> 
> Absolutely.  There is such a thing as Too Much Convenience.  I think
> BOOL as a context or an accessor method should be separate from STRING and
> NUMBER so that if you know, you can suggest which behavior you want out
> of a particular scalar variable, or stick with the misguidable default.

See RFC 159 - BOOLEAN, STRING, and NUMBER are the three main methods.

-Nate