Re: [MacPerl] find value in array

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:18:07PM -0700, Bruce Van Allen wrote:
> At 1:48 PM 10/17/00, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> >
> >I still prefer returning '0 but true' to avoid this problem, the way some
> >of Perl's builtin functions do, rather than returning a reference.
> 
> Cool. The expression $list['0 but true'] works like $list[0] !!

Perl even goes so far as to special case the string '0 but true'; when it
is converted to a number, Perl does not produce an "argument is not
numeric" warning.


Ronald

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