Lingua::Pangram

[Andrew Wilson]

Hi Marc

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:20:38AM +0000, Stray Toaster wrote:
> Bad Andrew! Bad, bad Andrew! If you ask me, which no one ever does, you
> should not rely on 0 and 1, and def not rely on them equating to true
> and false. Bad, bad, bad Andrew
> 
> It might just be me, but I prefer to test for definedness. I like to
> make all my *things* return true or undef. which is my false.
> 
> iyswim.

Sometimes I agree with this, testing if an object exists for instance I
would always check definedness (well now anyway) incase anyone has
overridden the stringification of the object.  This is just a rule of
thumb though.  Schwern pointed it out to me, it's really bad to test
for 1 and 0 being returned when you really mean true and false.  Sometimes
it's bad to check for truth when you should be checking definedness.
Horses for courses my man.

cheers

Andrew