On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:34:18PM -0000, Steve Peters via RT wrote: > 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.
There's a short section entitled "Truth and Falsehood" in perlsyn that's been there since 5.8.2. Did you just miss it, or do you think it needs to be expanded on? -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
