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. snip
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