> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Jan 17 16:33:47 2005]: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:52:18AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > I'm located far away so getting more books are inconvenient. Anyways I > > always need the answer "now" and I'm offline, and I hope to find it > > within the Debian basic packages I have installed. > > Okay, I'm going to be rude (again). > > Please go away. > > Please stop using the perlbug system for logging documentation enhancement > requests. Your concept of what should be in the Perl man pages clearly > differs from the majority of the people who are prepared to make changes > to them. That's a shame, but it's something you'll just have to live with. > > I have better things to do with my time than replying to this crap. > > Dave. >
While I agree that an explanation of why "print !!0" doesn't work isn't needed (take a look at Devel::Peek. It's your friend!), I was unable to find actual documentation as to what values actually evaluate to TRUE or FALSE in Perl. There is some pasing references to "", 0 and 1 in perlop.pod. perlfaq4 deals with hashes. The rest, as I've painfully learned in the past, are undocumented and a common source of bugs for beginners. I've got a start on an explanation of what is TRUE or FALSE in Perl. My question is should it go.
