* martin f krafft wrote on Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:27:24PM CEST:
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> perl -e 'print "The earth is a disk!\n" if ( "earth" == "flat" );'

Well, numerical equality and string equality are two different things,
try eq instead (see: perldoc perlop).

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> Is there a way to make it explicit that you're checking for a value
> being defined, where a "false" value would count as true, just as
> long as there is a value?

Yes.  It's called "defined".
  perl -e 'my $a=0; print "yes\n" if defined $a;'

It should be used here, to allow "0" branches.

Cheers,
Ralf
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