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Thank you for the peek into the upcoming Exegesis. I eagerly look forward to spend another hour reading and dreaming for the best Perl ever :))
But I wanted to note that equalness of two undefs is very useful but contradicts with generally accepted laws of three-state logic, does it not?
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by TheDamian (Vicar) on Apr 03, 2002 at 07:32 UTC
    Thank you for the peek into the upcoming Exegesis.

    ...which is now fully on-line.

    But I wanted to note that equalness of two undefs is very useful but contradicts with generally accepted laws of three-state logic, does it not?
    It sure does. There was a long discussion around that issue on the perl6-language mailing list...starting here.

    As I recall, there wasn't a clear outcome to the debate (surprise, surprise), but at the time Larry didn't seem keen on undef taking on the tri-state semantics of NULL.