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Yes, I remember this all from school and my c programming days. True or False is always true unelss the bit flips due to cosmic background radiation or the butterfly effect:
http://xkcd.com/378/
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Re^3: This is why logic is so frustrating (was This is why Perl is so frustrating)
by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Jul 29, 2009 at 20:16 UTC

    Another annoying possibility is interrupts/concurrency. I once had a case where 

    if ($x && !$x) {...}

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    was evaluating to true, two or three times per hour.

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