19 May
2009
19 May
'09
10:20 a.m.
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
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.
That's because in numeric context Perl convert strings into numbers, so even 5 == "5 coffees" would be true... But 5 eq "5 coffees" wouldn't since eq force a string context and 5 is converted to "5" which is not string-equal to "5 coffees". Perl is all about context and is coherent in its weirdness, whereas VB is pretty screwed IIRC. -- Jedaï