--- Dave Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, this is one thing that has troubled me
> about the new regex rules, and I've mentioned it
> before. I would still like for there to be
> a "reverse /x" switch, that would tell the
> regex that I want it to treat whitespace
> literally
Doe
From: "Damian Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > what would "true" (the string) be converted to?
>
> In a numeric context: 0 (as in Perl 5).
which was my point. You wouldn't want to cast any ol' scalar as a
number just to get 1 or 0 representations or TRUE or FALSE... that wouldn't
DWIM.
