Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from September 2009
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> [2009-09-02 00:00]: > In Perl 5 you can't make the difference between a string and > a number. And FWIW, this actually extends further: there is also no boolean type in Perl 5. Truth is simply a property of most scalar values and does not have a separate identity (ie. it is not some distinct value in its own right). So you also cannot tell whether a scalar is a boolean or not. Which causes some annoyance in dealing with JSON or Bencode. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous