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Re^3: The best "true zero" is...by mce (Curate) |
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true, but also not true :-) Many functions -like the execute function in DBI- return 0E0 when they want to return a result that is ment to be zero but is 'boolean' true in tests So, indeed it is not general perl, but it is common to use 0E0 as "zero but true". Cheers,
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