Yes - that's simple and logical enough.
It's a bit arbitrary, however. You could add NaN to that list of "falsehoods" - lose a bit of simplicity, but gain a bit of logicality, imo.

I have this notion of perl developers sitting around deciding upon what is "true" and what is "false" .... and the NaN was not considered.
If it *had* been considered, I would like to think that it would have been added to that list. But, for whatever reason, it's not on the list ... and I would think it will stay that way because that's the way it has always been.

What I'm wondering is:
Does the absence of NaN from that list mean that, in my own modules, I shouldn't overload bool to treat NaNs as false ?
It would take a compelling argument to make me accept that "Yes, I shouldn't do that", but I don't assume that such a compelling argument doesn't exist.

Cheers,
Rob

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