Re: explicit boolean accessor

[email protected] (Nathan Torkington)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.objects
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David L. Nicol writes:
> What if perl6 kept it as the default, but allowed any class
> to override the object->BOOLEAN accessor which will return
> um, a special TRUE and FALSE which only make sens in boolean
> contexts?

Like:

  use overload 
    'bool' => \&my_truth;

  sub my_truth {
    1;	# objects of this class are always true
  }

This works in Perl5.

Nat
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