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Wildhoney · 11-29-2007, 08:20 PM

It's actually supposed to be quicker than the function equivalents. I'm not saying you should use it for everything, but in certain circumstances it makes the code much better in terms of returning 1/0 as true/false.

11-29-2007, 08:20 PM	#4 (permalink)
Wildhoney La Vida es Sueño Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oldham Posts: 2,215 Thanks: 90	It's actually supposed to be quicker than the function equivalents. I'm not saying you should use it for everything, but in certain circumstances it makes the code much better in terms of returning 1/0 as true/false. __________________ The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.