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From:
Autrijus Tang
Date:
February 15, 2005 22:31
Subject:
Boolean literals
Message ID:
20050216062936.GA59153@aut.dyndns.org
Just a quick question.  The prettyprinter of Pugs (the thing that
handles the ".perl" method) currently prints out boolean true and
false as #t and #f, which is obviously not correct.

    pugs> (1 > 2, 2 > 1)
    (#f, #t)

What should I do, though?  Inventing two primitives, "true" and
"false"?  Or is there a way to annotate values with types, similar
to Haskell's "::" construct?

    pugs> (1 > 2, 2 > 1)
    (0 as Bool, 1 as Bool)

Thanks,
/Autrijus/
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