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Acme-Boolean-0.7
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/ Acme::Boolean

NAME

Acme::Boolean - There is more then one way to be true.

VERSION

version 0.7

SYNOPSIS

To be more literalistic:

    use Acme::Boolean;

    $decision = correct if verifiable;

    sub do_me_a_favor {
       nah;
    }

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a lot of words for you to express from the very trustful to the toally errorneous;

TRUE

These words can be used to refer to a true value:

yes verifiable trusty accurate actual appropriate authentic authoritative correct dependable direct exact factual fitting genuine honest indubitable kosher lawful legal legitimate natural normal perfect precise proper pure regular right rightful sincere straight trustworthy truthful typical undeniable undesigning undoubted unerring unfaked unfeigned unquestionable veracious veridical veritable wash

FALSE

And these words evaluates to false:

no untrue wrong incorrect errorneous fallacious untruthful nah apocryphal beguiling bogus casuistic concocted counterfactual deceitful deceiving delusive dishonest distorted erroneous ersatz fake fanciful faulty fictitious fishy fraudulent illusive imaginary improper inaccurate inexact invalid lying mendacious misleading misrepresentative mistaken phony sham sophistical specious spurious unfounded unreal unsound

Adjectives

Optionally it's possible to say it more nicely:

    $that = so correct;

(I wish I could alias "is" to "=" in that statement.)

Or you can:

    return very wrong;

In your lovely sub.

At this moment you can use these adjectives in front of any of those true/false vocabularies:

so totally very definitely really certainly surely unquestionably just undoubtedly absolutely.

Adjectives can be stacked too:

    say "ok" if very very very perfect; #=> ok

Caveats

Noted here that the word no is also a keyword for unimporting pragmas/modules and thus one must write &no to get the wanted boolean. Alternatively, one may go with the all caps version NO, although that may accidently include some emotions to the logic.

In fact, if strong emotion is intentionally wished for, all the introduced words comes with a all caps version at your disposal.

Here are some notable examples:

    my $p = SO true;
    my $q = NOT exactly lying;

Be notified that readers my not preceive such embedded emotion the same way writers put it.

Special forms

The builtin keyword not that flips true/false value is a nice add-on to boolean words but the all caps version is not provided by perl. Therefore Acme::Boolean completes perl by providing the all caps NOT unary operator.

    my $f = NOT yes; # false
    my $t = NOT NOT yes; # true

The keyword NO is also stackable this expression means NO:

    NO NO NO NO NO

Be very careful on using NO with other Acme::Boolean keywords for it always reduce everything on its right-hand side to a false value. After all, NO means NO. So this means NO.

    NO really not fishy

However, this expression means YES:

    NO, really not fishy

Be aware of the significance of punctuations.

SEE ALSO

boolean, the plain version of this module.

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2021 by Kang-min Liu.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The MIT (X11) License