Re: [FWP] JAPH made up entirely of double-chars?

[Philip Newton <philip.newton@datenrevision.de>]

Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:09:32PM -0800, Sean McAfee wrote:
> > An additional hindrance is that the $= variable seems to implicitly
> > convert to a number any scalar assigned to it.
> > [...]
> > Is this behavior documented anywhere?
> 
> $= is the current page length, in lines, so anything other 
> than a number wouldn't be meaningful.  Several of the special
> vars behave this way, behave they have a restricted domain of
> reasonable values.  It's not explicitly documented, though.

Another famous one is $|, which can only take on the values 0 and 1. Hence,
--$| flip-flops between the two.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de>
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