Perl is worse!

Paul Jackson pj at sgi.com
Sat Jul 29 00:10:25 EDT 2000


Steve wrote:
|> what of 1 + "1"?  That isn't senseless, those are two numbers.
|> I can see they are two numbers, it is only because of typing
|> that it fails.  

No.  1 + "1" is a pointer to the nul following the
ascii '1' in the  nul-terminated string "1". <grin>

pretending-to-be-a-pure-C-programmer'ly-yours ...

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