19 May
2009
19 May
'09
2:46 a.m.
On May 19, 2009, at 01:42 , Jason Dagit wrote:
I've often seen this bit of scary code in VB: Dim i as Integer = 5 If i = "5" Then ' Do something, because 5 = "5" End If
Sure, that works in Perl too. But the equivalent case here would be chr$(5), not "5". -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH