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I've been programming in C-derived languages for a couple of decades now. Somewhere along the line, I decided that I no longer wanted to write: if (var) // in C if ($var) # in Perl when what I meant was: if (var != 0) if (defined $var and $var ne '') I think part of it is that I have a strongly-typed brain and in my mind, "if" requires a boolean expression. Or maybe it's because I use Perl so much and truth and falsehood in Perl is such a mine-field. Or maybe it's just because these days, I'm mainly a Java programmer. What are your preferences and why?
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