I'm surprised that noone has cross-posted this here yet, but I posted
http://cam.pm.org/archive/2002-May/000761.html to cam.pm on Friday Night.
The competition is open to anyone, but since I have only had two solutions
to boggle over so far, I thought I'd post it here, and see what comes in.
If yo
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Scott Wiersdorf wrote:
>
> What is the shortest way to test a variable for truth and then set its
> value to false such that the truth test still succeeds?
>
> if( $a ) {
> $a = 0;
> do_something();
> }
I think you've got it. Since you specified the if-