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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: strings in boolean context
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Date: 29 Mar 90 23:57:07 GMT
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Well, the common idiom
	while (<>)
will fail on the pathological case where a file ends with a single "0"
without a terminating newline.  Of course, that will never happen.

I don't think making "0" true in perl is a great idea.  But then, I'm
more enamored with Icon's idea of success/failure.
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!flee