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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: $! and string context
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Date: 16 Jul 90 17:39:05 GMT
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   X-Name: Larry Wall

   That's fine as a workaround.  However, I'll make it so that if errno
   is 0, it returns the null string in a string context.  Then the boolean
   value will be unsurprising.

That sounds rather winning.  But what I found strange at first was
that the conditional was a string context, given that I think of truth
values as 0/1.

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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