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Re: [MacPerl] FNG

At 09.01 -0500 1999.01.28, Geoffrey C Kinnel wrote:
>Would SV_NO be the same as \000, the ASCII null? I was poking around

I don't see a similarity.  If I do:

  $x = 000;

I get 0 in $x, and it acts the same way as setting it to 0.  If I do:

  $x = \000;

I get a reference to a scalar.  And if I do:

  $x = "\000";

I get a string containing ASCII 0, and ~$x returns the character ASCII 255,
not the number 2**32-1.

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