Hi !!
>> why it's natural to think that an empty string equals to zero ? in my
>> point of view an empty or null string is not a number and if somebody
>> wants to compare numbers he should ensure that both thing to compare
>> in a *numeric comparision* are numbers.
>
> # perl -e 'print "Its 0\n" if "" == 0'
> Its 0
> #
>
> Case closed =)
this is also true on PHP (manly due some perl programmer), but not in C,
Visual Basic and others
case reopened =)
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