What are these emails really about?

On Jul 1, 2017 2:42 PM, "Chas. Owens" <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017, 12:44 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Shawn!
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>> On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:32:30 -0400
>> Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > !!$i which is !(!(0)) which is !(1) which is 0
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>> I suspect !1 returns an empty string in scalar context.
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> !1 returns PL_sv_no (an internal scalar variable). It is a dualvar that
> contains the empty string, the int 0 and the double 0.0. depending on the
> context the value is used in, it will be one of those values.
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> Many people think it is an empty string because the print function forces
> string context.
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