Nit: "The Real False" is not the empty string. It's the empty string in string context and 0 in numerical context. You can see the differnce using the following snippet:

use warnings;
print(("")+1, "\n");
print((!1)+1, "\n");
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If "The Real False" was simply an empty string, we'd see two warnings instead of

Argument "" isn't numeric in addition (+) at script.pl line 2.
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