Re: TRUE

I think Mr Pimlott was joking, although I must admit it was pretty subtle
:-)

Another Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaal Yahas" <[email protected]>
To: "Andrew Pimlott" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: TRUE


> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:09:29AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > I like to use symbolic constants.  Wha can remember what all those
> > 1, 0, undef, and ''s mean anyway?  So I start off all my programs
> > with
> >
> >     use constant FALSE => !TRUE;
> >     use constant TRUE => !FALSE;
>
> I start off all my programs with use strict :-)
>
> But more to the point, how do you use your TRUE and FALSE? Suppose you
> want to test the return value of this sub:
>
> sub returns_a_true_value { 8.2 }
>
> Would you do "if (returns_a_true_value() eq TRUE)"? "== TRUE"?
> Neither would work, and you can just do "if (returns_a_true_value())"
> directly anyway.
>
> -- 
> Gaal Yahas <[email protected]>
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