Perl seems to be assuming that "0.0" is a string, which is fair enough, if that is by design, which I assume it is. "return 0.0" would from a subroutine would evaluate as false.

Perl will convert "0.0" to a number as soon as you do anything mathematical on it. Such as: 
perl -e '$foo = "0.0" + 0; print $foo ? "True" : "False"'

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Which behaves as you'd expect. This reminds me of (even though it's completely different):
perl -e 'print "I cannot add" unless 19.08 + 2.01 == 21.09'

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If I remember correctly this comes from an early TPJ article.

Update: removed ' from print statement - thanks tilly - That's me in hybrid Win32 cmd.exe, Linux shell quoting mode :)

Simon Flack ($code or die)
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