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From:
Bart Lateur
Date:
December 5, 2001 06:12
Subject:
Re: tri-state flags
Message ID:
67as0u839uombgk2046ngoigfcq5ikgpcd@4ax.com
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:44:00 -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>but from what he said, I'd think that bumming off of concluding "It is not
>undef and not true" implies "it must have been zero" is legit within the
>parameters of the challenge, no??
Yes. The values to test for are true, false (but not undef), and undef.
In practice, such a flag can get set through a perl boolean, so "0" is
not the only possible false-but-defined value. I'd hate to have to do
$matched = /PATTERN/ || 0;
just to get around that.
The meaning of the test is "did I set this to false?", so it must be set
(= defined), and false.
--
Bart.
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