Re: [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" isalways false

Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>                                              If the string is a
>constant in the source then it's true, not false.  Perl's a2p(1) doesn't
>handle this subtlety.

a2p isn't meant to be an implementation of awk, but an approximate
translator.  It deliberately compromises on awk semantics in order
to produce idiomatic Perl.  So this problem, arising from a low-level
difference in language semantics, is unfortunate but not a bug.

-zefram

• [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" is always false by Ralph Corderoy
• Re: [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" isalways false by Zefram
• Re: [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" is always false by Ralph Corderoy
• [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" is always false by Father Chrysostomos via RT
• Re: [perl #115158] a2p wrongly considers string literal "0" isalways false by Zefram
• a2p/s2p by Johan Vromans
• Re: a2p/s2p by James E Keenan
• Re: a2p/s2p by Nicholas Clark
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