[OT] Perl woes

[Paul Makepeace]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mark Blackman <mark at blackmans.org> wrote:
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> On 28 Jan 2009, at 12:01, Paul Makepeace wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Dominic Thoreau
>> <dominic.thoreau at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> 2009/1/28 Jonathan Kimmitt <Jonathan.Kimmitt at csr.com>:
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>>>>      The next time I use == instead of eq to compare two strings, I
>>>> will know to expect it will always
>>>>      evaluate to true.
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>> Interesting that everyone's said to "use warnings" but no-one's
>> questioned what you're saying. Perl appears to me to DTRT:
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>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "a" == "2"'
>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "a" == "a"'
>> yes
>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "1" == "1"'
>> yes
>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "1" == "0"'
>> $ perl -le 'print "yes" if "1" == 1'
>> yes
>> $
>>
>> Can you give an example where perl is doing something surprising to you?
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> perl -le 'print "yes" if "a" == "b"'
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> Is the kind of case I suspect he's hit.

Yeah, 'spect so :-)

Paul, who could've sworn he tested that...

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> - Mark
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