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

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in reply to Re^2: Perl allows you to change the definition of false to make it true. (And vice versa.)
in thread 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"

use v5.10.0;
use boolean;
 
say true;
say "stringification:" . (1==1);

output:

/usr/bin/perl -w /tmp/boolean.pl 
1
stringification:1

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);