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Jan Dubois wrote: >I don't see agreement on what the bug is anymore: > >a) Should -0 always be TRUE, even when it has never been stringified, or >b) Should -0 always be stringified as "0" and therefore always be FALSE? Either would be self-consistent, and thus make an improvement on the bug. Of the two options, I have a distinct preference for b, because it adds the further consistency that any flavour of pure numeric zero is consistently false. Perl makes it difficult to predict which zero you'll get, and using numeric values directly as truth values is common, so this is a very useful thing to be consistent about. -zeframThread Previous | Thread Next