[SR-Dev] new operators & if($v) behaviour

[Juha Heinanen]

Miklos Tirpak writes:

 > Both of them would return false. Btw, I do not think that empty value is 
 > allowed for to tag, it's a very rare case, and could be covered with 
 > some explicit check.

to me to tag was just an example of some variable.

 > We used to write this, but had lots of issues. The problem happens for 
 > example with @contact.uri.user, when there is no contact header. 
 > Unfortunately the select function can return and error instead of 
 > success with "" value in this case. (The can be also revisited) And 'if 
 > (@contact.uri.user == "")' would evaluate to false because the left had 
 > side value does not exist, which is wrong.

this is exactly my point.  you have to first check if something exists
before you start to compare its value to something.

-- juha