Re: cast of integer to bool doesn't work (anymore?)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Eric Veldhuyzen wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:46:17PM -0200, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > 
> > Currently (7.3) all input can be handled if fed as text.
> > So what you can do is simply:
> > 
> >  my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
> >      "INSERT INTO object_def (name, meant_as_subobject) VALUES (?,?)");
> >  $sth->execute('test', '0');
> 
> Ah, thanks, that seems to work, with only minor modifications to our
> code. Is there any reason why integers are no longer convertable to
> booleans?

There has been some general rectification on the casting system in 7.3.*.

> 
> 

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