On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:04:53PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
spew-ed forth:
> On Jun 27, Kevin Meltzer said:
>
> >On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:51:01AM -0400, Chas Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spew-ed
>forth:
> >> On 27 Jun 2001 17:45:18 +0200, Jos Boumans wrote:
> >> > > How do you mean?
> >> >
> >
> >They are true values, 0 is false.
>
> Values that can not be converted to a numerical value have the value of 0
> in numerical context. "a" is converted to 0 in numerical context, as are
> "b", "foobar", "a1b2", and "-d3".
Ugh... yes.. finger vs. brain RPMs aren't the same :) The 'evaluation'
was true.. not the elements. Sorry folks.. my 1-screw-up-per-day quota
has been met.
However, I still think --a returning -1 is useless :)
Cheers,
Kevin
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