Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding gotcha.

2001-04-03 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:53:10PM -0400, Jim Mahoney wrote: I recently spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to understand a bug in my DBI program, and now that I understand what's going on, I'm writing to suggest that the documentation show better how the type conversion from

Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding gotcha.

2001-04-03 Thread Jim Mahoney
Tim Bunce wrote: The "gotcha" is when I put in the following (fairly innocuous) line into the "... other code here ..." block. $if ($id == -1) { print " Ooops - illegal ID \n"; } That'll generate a warning in perl if warnings are enabled. Good point; thank you. I ran across the

Re: documentation suggestion: explain strings, numbers, and binding gotcha.

2001-04-02 Thread Chris Winters
* Jim Mahoney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010402 22:03]: I recently spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to understand a bug in my DBI program, and now that I understand what's going on, I'm writing to suggest that the documentation show better how the type conversion from perl scalars