On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:46:41 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Lateur)
wrote:
> Also intersting to note is its behaviour WRT perl booleans. As you know,
> (or should know ;-)), is that these have a dual nature: a boolean false
> is 0 in numerical context, and "" in string context. Well, apparently ~
> thinks of it as a number.
I suppose it depends on the order in which the appropriate code behind
the ~ operator tests -- if it's "if(num) {...} elsif(string) {...}"
you'll obviously get diffferent results than from "if(string) {...}
elsif(num) {...}" for variables which have both the "is-num" and
"is-string" bit turned on.
Cheers,
Philip
