[perl #131166] Error in documentation on "perldata"

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This is a bug report for perl from wolf-dietrich_moeller@t-online.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.24.1.


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[Please describe your issue here]
The documentation "perldata" reads in the section on "Scalar values" the
following:
"If you evaluate a hash in scalar context, it returns false if the hash is
empty. ..."
This statement not completely true.
- It is true if evaluated in Boolean context, e.g. in "if ( %hash )".
- But if used in scalar context expecting a string (e.g. 'n='.%hash), it
returns "0",
  and not the empty string, which would be expected for a result = "false".

So the sentence cited above should read:
"If you evaluate a hash in scalar context, it returns 0 if the hash is
empty. ..."

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Flags:
    category=docs
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.24.1:

Configured by strawberry-perl at Sun Jan 15 20:30:58 2017.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 1) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.3, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
    uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.24.1.1 #1 Sun Jan 15 20:28:53 2017 i386'
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing
-mms-bitfields',
    optimize='-s -O2',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.9.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678,
doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12,
longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long
long', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\Perl\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\Perl\c\lib"'
    libpth=C:\Perl\c\lib C:\Perl\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib
C:\Perl\c\lib\gcc\i686-w64-mingw32\4.9.2
    libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
    libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl524.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=xs.dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\Perl\perl\lib\CORE"
-L"C:\Perl\c\lib"'


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@INC for perl 5.24.1:
    C:/Perl/perl/site/lib
    C:/Perl/perl/vendor/lib
    C:/Perl/perl/lib

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Environment for perl 5.24.1:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files\Perl\site\bin;C:\Program
Files\Perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Pr
ogram Files\Windows
Imaging\;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Bin;C:\Program
Files\QuickTime
Alternative\QTSystem;C:\Perl\c\bin;C:\Perl\perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\perl\bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL (unset)

• [perl #131166] Error in documentation on "perldata" by Wolf-Dietrich Moeller