Re: TRUE
Gaal Yahas <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 05:52:02PM +0100, Honza Pazdziora wrote:
> > 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())"
>
> But 8.2 is not TRUE value. If returns_a_true_value is supposed to
> return a true true value, it should end with
>
> return TRUE;
>
> shouldn't it?
8.2 is not TRUE as Andrew defined it, but it is true under Perl's idea
of truth. That is in fact my point: using the non-native notion of what
truth is, you can't use any code from other people because you can't
assume it returns what you expect to be called true to signal truth.
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