Oh wow, you mean it will work if I use the OR operator? /facepalm.
Completely missed that mistake. Thanks Alex. Obviously works just fine.
Can't believe I missed that this whole time.
Chris
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote:
> What happens if you use || instead of |
>
> On 1/17/14 3:24 PM, "Chris Martin" <windo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hey everyone,
> >
> >I'm not sure why this is not working, and i'd like to understand why I get
> >the compile error. I just keep looking at the code and thinking it should
> >be okay. I'm basically trying to set a Boolean via a "inline check".
> >Here
> >are some variables to give you an idea of the initialized state.
> >
> >var str1:String = "";
> >var num1:Number;
> >var num2:Number = 0;
> >var resultBool:Boolean = false;
> >
> >Here's the line of code.
> >
> >resultBool = (str1 != "" | (!isNaN(num1) | num2 != 0));
> >
> >It looks more confusing when I removed the context out of it, but yeah
> >that's it.
> >
> >When I compile it I get the follow error:
> >1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type Boolean to an unrelated type
> >Number.
> >
> >I ultimately expanded the logic to be this, to stop the compile error from
> >happening.
> >
> >if(str1 != "")
> > resultBool = true;
> >else{
> > if(!isNaN(num1))
> > resultBool = true;
> > else if(num2 != 0)
> > resultBool = true;
> >}
> >
> >I even tried this variation and still got the exception during compile.
> >
> >resultBool = (str1 != "") | (!isNaN(num1) | num2 != 0);
> >
> >So yeah. I'm certainly not adverse to having the expanded version in my
> >code. It will probably be easier to read anyways. I just wanna get my
> >head straight on understanding the why.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Chris
>
>
