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in thread Perl allows you to change the definition of false to make it true. (And vice versa.)

This is what boolean does.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'
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Re^3: Perl allows you to change the definition of false to make it true. (And vice versa.)
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 14, 2012 at 17:20 UTC
    > > ... For instance this way, one could try to patch booleans in a way that they stringify to "false" and "true" like in JS. ...

    > This is what boolean does.

    well, not yet:

    JS-Console 

    >>> true
 
true
 
>>> "stringification: " + (1==1)
 
"stringification: true"

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    use v5.10.0;
use boolean;
 
say true;
say "stringification:" . (1==1);

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    output: 

    /usr/bin/perl -w /tmp/boolean.pl 
1
stringification:1

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    but using dualvars could help.

    UPDATE:

    kind of 

    use Scalar::Util qw/dualvar/;
 
my $false = dualvar 0, "false";
my $true = dualvar 1, "true";
 
say $true;
say "stringification:" . $true;
say "numification: " . (0+$true);
 
say $false;
say "stringification: " . $false;
say "numification: " . (0+$false);

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    Cheers Rolf

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