RE: Status Summary; next steps [x-bayes][x-adr]

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 14:25, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> (2) The behavior of an explicit bool type, _if_ one exists, 
> that stores "truth", not "value".  Such that C<my bool $y
> = (0 but true)> stores true, not 0, and does so in "the
> most efficient way".

There is no explicit bool type.

Larry Wall wrote:
> 
> Please don't think of C<bit> as a boolean type.  There is
> no boolean type in Perl, only a boolean context.  Or looking
> at it from the other direction, *every* type is a boolean
> type.

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