On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:18:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +contents. Non-container types define truthiness much as Perl 5 does.
Except -0.0 ?
(Which is a bit of a problem in Perl 5 - if the internals think that it's
a number, it's false. If it manages to get stringified, it now is tr
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:16:39AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: Though it's not quite the same, since the prefix presumably forces
: a multiple dispatch to Perl's idea of notiness, while a direct .not
: method would rely on the the object's notion of notiness. This is
: probably a good distinction f
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:56:12PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:18:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > +=item *
: > +
: > +The definition of C<.true> for the most ancestral type (that is, the
: > +C type) is equivalent to C<.defined>.
:
: Would we normally c
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:18:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +=item *
> +
> +The definition of C<.true> for the most ancestral type (that is, the
> +C type) is equivalent to C<.defined>.
Would we normally consider prefix: to be defined in terms of
C<.true>, or vice versa? Is there a pre
Author: larry
Date: Thu Jan 17 13:18:31 2008
New Revision: 14491
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log:
Define truthiness of standard types.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
==
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02
