Possible bug using mathematical expressions for boolean checks

[seandisanti]

it doesn't seem like this should display 2 message boxes, but it does... I couldn't remember if negatives evaluated as true or false, but rather than check the helpfile, i opened up scite and just wrote a check... then because i had nothing better to do, i threw in a 'Not' to see if the condition evaluated to false, but it didn't...

$a = 2
$b = 3
if $a - $b Then MsgBox(0,"yep","negatives evaluate to true")
if Not $a - $b Then MsgBox(0,"yep","negatives evaluate to true")

[seandisanti]

this

if Not $a - $b Then MsgBox(0,"yep","negatives evaluate to true")

evaluates to ...

(Not $a) - $b

0 -3

try...

if Not ($a - $ Then MsgBox(0,"yep","negatives evaluate to true")

thanks, didn't even think to check precedence...