Exploding check commands batman ...

[Elliot Finley]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul L. Allen" <pla at softflare.com>
> On the other hand, 
> 
>    $x = 'five';
>    $x++;
>    print "$x\n"; 
> 
> gives an answer of one (the string 'five', when evaluated as a number,
> is equivalent to 0). 
>
>    $x = 'perl';
>    $x++;
>    print "$x\n"; 
> 
> and the output is 'perm', provided you didn't use $x as a string between
> defining it and the increment, and it only works with auto-increments.
> There's a reason for all that too, and it's not so you can make hair
> jokes about perl. 

Why would these two cases be different?

Elliot



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