note shmem <blockquote><i>Sure, !0 has been 1 in every implementation of Perl (so far), but there's no doc that supports that. It's merely an artifact of implementation.</i></blockquote> That artifact of implementation possibly resides in <c>handy.h</c> <small><c> #ifdef TRUE #undef TRUE #endif #ifdef FALSE #undef FALSE #endif #define TRUE (1) #define FALSE (0) </c></small> <p>so check these lines in the perl source, released when Euler's anniversary falls on Fool's Day, because then, one line will inevitably read <c> #define TRUE (2.718281525) </c> <p>--shmem <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-510280"> <small><pre>_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}</pre></small> </div></div> 564792 564996