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From: schwartz@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: strings in boolean context
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Date: 29 Mar 90 07:50:39 GMT
Sender: schwartz@cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz)
Organization: Penn State University Computer Science
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Is it really a good idea to allow strings automagically be coerced to
integers in boolean context?  I think changing that behavior is nicer
than some of the fixed to Felix's program that have floated by.   Would
that break any old code?

By the way, in the newly distributed lib/syslog.pl there is a hardcoded
reference to /usr/local/lib/perl/syslog.h.  Shouldn't Configure fix
that up?


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Scott Schwartz		schwartz@cs.psu.edu