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bool

bool -- Standard Fuzion type 'bool'

We need to apologize to George Boole for crippling his name a bit,
just to safe us from typing one more letter. But at least we stop
here and do not use boo, bo or similar.

bool is a choice type that can either be true_ of false_.

Note that 'true_' and 'false_' themselves are not of type 'bool'.
Routines 'true' and 'false' are the preferred way to get a constant
value of type 'bool'.

Functions

 => 
fuzion.java.Java_Object
[Contains abstract features]
(T 
type
, v Lazy T)
 => 
option T
[Contains abstract features]
create an option from a lazily evaluated value depending on this bool
 => 
String
[Redefinition of  Any.as_string]
[Contains abstract features]
human readable string

redefines:

 => 
Type
[Inherited from  Any]
[Contains abstract features]
Get the dynamic type of this instance. For value instances `x`, this is
equal to `type_of x`, but for `x` with a `ref` type `x.dynamic_type` gives
the actual runtime type, while `type_of x` results in the static
compile-time type.

There is no dynamic type of a type instance since this would result in an
endless hierarchy of types. So for Type values, dynamic_type is redefined
to just return Type.type.
(other bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
and
(other Lazy bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
and with lazy evaluation
(other Lazy bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
implies
(other bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
equivalence

note that we do not use '==' for this to avoid confusion since
a == b == c for booleans might not behave as expected
('true <=> false <=> false' evaluates to 'true')
(other bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
xor
(other bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
or
(other Lazy bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
or with lazy evaluation
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
not
 => 
String
[Inherited from  Any]
[Contains abstract features]
convenience prefix operator to create a string from a value.

This permits usage of `$` as a prefix operator in a similar way both
inside and outside of constant strings: $x and "$x" will produce the
same string.
(T 
type
, a Lazy T, b Lazy T)
 => 
T
[Contains abstract features]
ternary ? : -- NYI: This will be replaced by a more powerful match syntax

Type Functions

 => 
Monoid bool
[Contains abstract features]
monoid of bool with infix & operation. Will be true iff all elements are
true.
 => 
Monoid bool
[Contains abstract features]
monoid of bool with infix | operation. Will be false iff all elements are
false.
 => 
String
[Inherited from  Type]
[Contains abstract features]
string representation of this type to be used for debugging.

result has the form "Type of '<name>'", but this might change in the future

redefines:

 => 
Type
[Inherited from  Type]
[Contains abstract features]
There is no dynamic type of a type instance since this would result in an
endless hierarchy of types, so dynamic_type is redefined to just return
Type.type here.

redefines:

(a bool, b bool)
 => 
bool
[Contains abstract features]
equality check implementation for inherited property.equatable
(T 
type
)
 => 
bool
[Inherited from  Type]
[Contains abstract features]
Is this type assignable to a type parameter with constraint `T`?

The result of this is a compile-time constant that can be used to specialize
code for a particular type.

is_of_integer_type(n T : numeric) => T : integer
say (is_of_integer_type 1234) # true
say (is_of_integer_type 3.14) # false

it is most useful in conjunction preconditions or `if` statements as in

pair(a,b T) is
same
pre T : property.equatable
=>
a = b

or

val(n T) is

# check if T is numeric, if so
# return true if n > zero,
# return nil if T is not numeric
#
more_than_zero option bool =>
if T : numeric then
n > T.zero
else
nil
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 => 
String
[Inherited from  Type]
[Contains abstract features]
name of this type, including type parameters, e.g. 'option (list i32)'.
 => 
Monoid bool
[Contains abstract features]
monoid of bool with infix ^ operation. Will be true iff an odd number of
elements is true. This gives the even parity.
 => 
String
[Inherited from  Type]
[Contains abstract features]
convenience prefix operator to create a string from a value.

This permits usage of `$` as a prefix operator in a similar way both
inside and outside of constant strings: $x and "$x" will produce the
same string.

NYI: Redefinition allows the type feature to be distinguished from its normal counterpart, see #3913

redefines:

 => 
Type
[Inherited from  Any]
[Contains abstract features]
Get a type as a value.

This is a feature with the effect equivalent to Fuzion's `expr.type` call tail.
It is recommended to use `expr.type` and not `expr.type_value`.

`type_value` is here to show how this can be implemented and to illustrate the
difference to `dynamic_type`.
0.094dev (2025-06-18 15:08:51 GIT hash 89cffc23ae669b0898a5564fefbf793fcb8e5ca7 built by fridi@fzen)