Re: RFC 263 (v1) Add null() keyword and fundamental data type

[Casey R. Tweten]

Today around 1:03pm, Tom Christiansen hammered out this masterpiece:

: Perl has *one* out-of-band value.  It doesn't need more.  That
: doesn't mean that perhaps some rare sorts of programming might not
: benefit from fancy weirdnesses.  That's what modules are for.
: You don't need to complicate the general language to get what
: you want.  Don't make others pay for your problems.

=begin half-joking

  use verbose ':all';  # imports null(), true(), false() etc

  if ( $var eq null || false $var ) {
    print "This variable _really_ isn't true.";
  }

I'm only half joking because I've been thinking about writing this for a
while.  However, I would probably never use it, personally, I can see times when
others have wanted something close.

=end


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