On 10/15/07, Michael Barto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  I think in the more newer languages, they have implemented true booleans.
>  Perl is kind of old school. Pascal defines them as a grandfather of 
> languages.
>  Therefore as one migrates the languages to a higher levels (e.g. Perl[n]), 
> they
>  all will end up with a boolean data type. Therefore, I think the $true and 
> $false
>  is a more consistent method in a multiple languages environments 
> (particularly
>  doing web things [Java and Javascript] for a consistent set of rules across 
> the
>  board. Thanks for your input.
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Perl 6 will have true boolean values: True and False.  See S02 for
more information.

http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S02.html

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