What do you reckon, what is the best way to implement C++ or Pascal style boolean data type in Perl?
I use enum module for this.
use enum qw(FALSE=0 TRUE=1);
Does it have some drawbacks I should be aware of? Don't know too much about enum module, opinions welcome.
Definition from Camel book says any string except for "" and "0", any number except for 0 and any reference are true, any undef value is false. So my enum seems to fulfill this definition, I am just curious whether the enum can misbehave in some situations...
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