verum

Represents the true boolean value and can prefix a truthiness check.

Syntax: verum [<expression>]

Category

literal

Related

• falsum
• bivalens
• verum

Examples

examples/corpus/literalia/boolean.fab (canonical · existing-home)

Boolean literals verum and falsum with bivalens bindings.

# literalia/boolean — verum and falsum literals
#
# GRAMMAR:
#   literal :← 'verum' | 'falsum'
#
# EXPECTED OUTPUT:
#   verum, falsum, verum
#
# BACKEND:
#   Cross-ref keyword dirs verum/verum.fab and falsum/falsum.fab.

incipit {
    fixum bivalens enabled ← verum
    fixum bivalens disabled ← falsum
    nota enabled
    nota disabled
    nota enabled et non disabled
}

Expected output:

verum
falsum
verum

examples/corpus/verum/verum.fab (canonical · keyword)

Represents the true boolean value and can prefix a truthiness check.

# verum — true literal
#
# GRAMMAR:
#   literal :← 'verum'
#
# EXPECTED OUTPUT:
#   Scalar stdout smoke (see body).
#

incipit {
    fixum _ active ← verum
    nota active
}

Expected output:

verum