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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:07, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:48:52AM -0400, Chas. Owens wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:23, karl williamson >>> <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> # New Ticket Created by karl williamson >>>> # Please include the string: [perl #76756] >>>> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. >>>> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76756 > >>>> >>>> >>>> Attached >>>> >>> If the seed can every be 0, then this breaks the following very important >>> code: >> >>> I guess it is time to print up new business cards. >> >> No need: >> >> commit da1010ecc50c91387eed9bcc349e6960909a3484 >> Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> >> Date: Wed Jul 28 11:01:51 2010 +0100 >> >> Make srand() return "0 but true" for 0, for backwards compatible >> behaviour. >> >> >> (which I had suggested as part of the original discussion) >> >> Nicholas Clark >> > But you suggested it in such a way that it went right over my head. I > didn't understand what you meant; and thought you were being funny, cause I > don't have the background to to get it. I'll have to examine your changes. > "0 but true", "0e0", "0.0", and a couple other strings are true values (because they aren't the string "0"), but don't elicit the 'Argument "%s" isn't numeric%s' warning. perl -wE 'say $_ + 1, $_ ? " true" : " false" for qw/ 0 0.0 0e0 /, "0 but true", "0 but dkfjnkerfnk"' 1 false 1 true 1 true 1 true Argument "0 but dkfjnkerfnk" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1. 1 true -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.Thread Previous | Thread Next