Re^3: Perl allows you to change the definition of false to make it true. (And vice versa.)

> > ... 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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