Re: [RFC] export TRUE and FALSE from someplace

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

Bjarne Steinsbø <bosteins broadpark no> writes:

> This discussion could easily turn into a religious war...  I don't
> really like to make any contribution towards that end, but anyway,
> here are my own two cents:
>
> Firstly, if a value is to be chosen for FALSE, I feel that 'undef'
> is a better choice than '0' in perl.  Look at
>
>   $a = (1 == 0);
>
> Zero is also false, that is true, but a true boolean expression in
> perl returns undef or one, not zero or one.  (Sorry, I can't help
> it.  Writing about boolean logic just makes it too easy to play on
> words... :-)
>
> Secondly, I never liked TRUE and FALSE constants in the first place.
> I think this is because I feel that they fall between two chairs.
> They are unnecessary (don't improve readability) in code like

i agree with you