On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 02:15:20PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:00:22PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > : Although admittedly, I only encountered this when playing with a : > : non-readonly undef ;) (This is something I can recommend to anyone: : > : redefining true, false and undef leads to very spectacular code, where : > : anything's possible, and defined(undef) can be a true that stringifies : > : as "false".) : > : > Perl 6 culture might feebly try to discourage the redefinition of truth. : : Hmm, and here I was thinking that the culture was rapidly evolving : towards "There Is More Than One Way To Define It". :-)
As long as it's still spelled TMTOWTDI. Or I suppose we could always recontextualize the meaning of "is" instead. There is prior art... Larry
