Non-empty strings in boolean context - Flash7 2004-03-20 - By Morten Barklund
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Hi,
When researching, I've read that in Flash MX 2004, strings converted to
booleans are true, when non-empty whereas they in Flash MX were true, only
when Number(string) where non-nil and non NaN.
That is:
trace("hi" ? true : false);
Traced false in Flash MX but true in Flash MX 2004.
I understand that.
But then I assumed, that this would be the case in any boolean context,
where I'd assume, that the flash interpreter uses boolean conversion.
For instance, in Flash MX:
trace("hi" || "goodbye");
Traced "goodbye", as Boolean("hi") resolves to false. That is directly after
the book.
Can someone please tell me, why Flash MX 2004 trace "goodbye" as well - and
not "hi", which I'd assume would resolve to true?
I'm pretty lost here - please tell me that I and not Macromedia made a
mistake on this one.
// Morten Barklund
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