>Yes. You cannot in Perl, since only 60% or so of operations are >documented You keep saying that. Please back it up with exact cites. It sounds completely terrible. (if you omit those things which are documented hopelessly >wrong :-(). I for one am sick and tired of listening to you cast aspersions on the documentation without lifting a finger to even IDENTIFY the issues you're dreaming up, let alone offering a patch. >Did you ever use > $a = $b + $c; Why yes. I did. Assuming unoverloaded and numeric operands, I expect that it will conform to C's well-defined notions on integer and real arithmetic as respectively applicable. I understand that you don't care for this, and have been trying to change it, but that's certainly my expectation. --tom