"TRUE" and "FALSE" are meaningless to Perl, unless you give them meaning. Watch: 
$debug = bungee;

if ($debug eq bungee) {
  $debug = SPELUNK;
}
else {
  $debug = bungee;
}

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See? All I did was change "TRUE" to "SPELUNK" and "FALSE" to "bungee", and the code works as before.

There is NO Perl literature that says TRUE is true and FALSE is false; if there is, the author deserves to be spat upon by an angry camel. Use true/false values that everyone else (who knows) does. 

if ($debug) {
  # $debug is true
}
else {
  # $debug is false
}

$debug = 1;
$debug = !$debug;  # flip-flop

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Or, make your own boolean class. 
package boolean;

use overload (
  '+0' => sub { $_[0][0] },
  fallback => 1,
);

sub new { bless [ $_[1] ? 1 : 0 ], $_[0] }
sub flip { $_[0][0] = 1 - $_[0][0] }

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And then use it 
use boolean;

$debug = boolean->new(1);
print "hi\n" if $debug;
$debug->flip;
print "bye\n" if $debug;

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japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

In reply to Re: Flip Flop IV by japhy
in thread Flip Flop IV by PetaMem

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