"David L. Nicol" wrote:
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> Bart Lateur wrote:
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> > Bitwise and, or and xor do distinguish strings from numbers, and return
> > entirely different kinds of results. Why can't anything else?
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> Absolutely. There is such a thing as Too Much Convenience. I think
> BOOL as a context or an acces
Bart Lateur wrote:
> Bitwise and, or and xor do distinguish strings from numbers, and return
> entirely different kinds of results. Why can't anything else?
Absolutely. There is such a thing as Too Much Convenience. I think
BOOL as a context or an accessor method should be separate from STRING
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 05:21:27 -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>=item perl6storm #0052
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>Make "0" (more?) true so that people don't get surprised.
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>or
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>Make "0.00" (more?) false so that people don't get surprised.
Yup. This tripped me up, years ago, followed by a heated discussion on
comp.
