Re: 0, true or false? (was: PERL6STORM #0052)

[David L. Nicol]

Bart Lateur wrote:

 Bitwise and, or and xor do distinguish strings from numbers, and return
 entirely different kinds of results. Why can't anything else?

Absolutely.  There is such a thing as Too Much Convenience.  I think
BOOL as a context or an accessor method should be separate from STRING and
NUMBER so that if you know, you can suggest which behavior you want out
of a particular scalar variable, or stick with the misguidable default.



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Re: 0, true or false? (was: PERL6STORM #0052)

[Nathan Wiger]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:
 
 Bart Lateur wrote:
 
  Bitwise and, or and xor do distinguish strings from numbers, and return
  entirely different kinds of results. Why can't anything else?
 
 Absolutely.  There is such a thing as Too Much Convenience.  I think
 BOOL as a context or an accessor method should be separate from STRING and
 NUMBER so that if you know, you can suggest which behavior you want out
 of a particular scalar variable, or stick with the misguidable default.

See RFC 159 - BOOLEAN, STRING, and NUMBER are the three main methods.

-Nate