how do you print (check for) boolean value?

I'm doing some debugging in a PL/SQL procedure. I'm trying to print out a boolean value to a temp table. However Oracle doesn't like it. Here's what I have:

<procedure snippet>

procedure some_procedure is

v_some_variable boolean;

begin
  --some_function returns boolean value:   v_some_variable := some_function(some_parameters);

  insert into temp values(v_some_variable);

end;
</procedure snippet>

When I try to compile this, Oracle responds:
<Oracle response>

(1):PLS-00382: expression is of wrong type (2):PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
</Oracle response>

Is there a way to print out this value somehow? I was looking at different conversion functions, but couldn't find anything related to boolean values.

For now, what I do is:

<workaround snippet>

if (v_some_variable=true) then
  insert into temp('true');
else
  insert into temp('false');
endif;
</workaround snippet>

It works, but isn't there a way to check out this value directly?

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