Every now and then I have this discussion with people at work that involve Perl's
ideas of boolean truth. I usually break it down like this:
In Perl5, the following values are FALSE: undef, '0', 0, and ''.
Anything not in that list is considered TRUE in a boolean context. That means that
Perl
How about
use Baz; # assume object type
my property foo;
my @bar of Baz is false but foo; # maybe not what you meant?
If you apply a trait like false to an array, I expect it to apply to the
"array instance object" itself and not the content, so that
push @bar, Baz.new();
if @bar{
> From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hodges, Paul writes:
> >
> > sub setvals ($o, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
> > $o but= $_;
> > $o.$_ = true;
> > }
>
> Y'all seem to be missing a C somewhere :-)
>
>
> From: Jonathan Scott Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:42:09AM -0500, Hodges, Paul wrote:
> >
> > module IHL::Roles;
> > @ISA = 'Exporter';
> > @EXPORT_OK = qw/ fatal verbose allow setvals /;
> >
> > our
--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, it's not nearly as general as we're making it, but the
> inspiration for it comes in part from the "Traits" paper:
>
> http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf
>
> Basically, I'm attempting to take their concept and unify
