Hi peppiv,

Like everyone else, at some time or other, I have been bitten by this. I have noticed lately around the monastery some people using the idiom 

if ( 1 == $row ){ ... }

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the reason being that if ( 1 = $row ){ ... } would yield an error. ( Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment )

My first impression was that the construct was ugly, and counter-intuitive, but I feel my opinion changing. I haven't included it in any code, yet, but who knows what the future will bring? :-)

Does anyone have any thoughts on whether the use of this construct should be encouraged?

thinker

In reply to Re: Re: Re: pushing individual rows of return (DBI) into seperate arrays by thinker
in thread pushing individual rows of return (DBI) into seperate arrays by peppiv

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