Quote #89

I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers. :-)

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  1. I think you didn't get a reply because you used the terms 'correct' and 'proper', neither of which has much meaning in Perl culture. :-)
  2. True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.
  3. You can prove anything by mentioning another computer language. :-)
  4. Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians notwithstanding.
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