On 3/11/04 4:04 PM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:43:22PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > : Which is precisely the problem with something like > : > : $a cmp= $b > : > : insofar as $a is being treated as a string at one moment and as a boolean > : at the next. > > Well, okay, not a boolean. More like a troolean.
Back in myyyyy daaayyyy, we used to call that a "scalar." And we liked it, because it was all we had! ;) -John
