Sean Chittenden said: > Perl's > decision to let any non-empty string be true doesn't mean a database > should take any nonfalse-like value and assume it should be true. > 42::BOOL == TRUE, on the other hand, has a long mathematical president > wherein non-zero values are true and zero values are false. >
(ITMY precedent) FYI, perl does not quite do this. Both "" and "0" are false. Any other string is true. Of course, the Unix shell treats an exit value of 0 as success and non-zero as failure, so the rule is hardly universal. Personally, I would prefer to make boolean as opaque as possible. But I don't care that much. > > > ... I wonder what color this bikeshed is gunna be... purple. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
