# Warning to terse scripters

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/warning-to-terse-scripters/16001
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 13, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/warning-to-terse-scripters/16001 "2014-08-13T12:33:12Z")
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### Author: ![chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@chrisjj](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/chrisjj)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2014, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/warning-to-terse-scripters/16001/1 "2014-08-13T12:33:12Z")

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Anyone in the habit of abbreviating by dropping unnecessary 0 e.g.

$iflonger(s,,true,false) -\> true

may like to know that null does not always evaluate to zero e.g.

$if($eql(0,),true,false) -\> false

Such abbreviation is probably unwise regardless, given it relies on behaviour undefined.