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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 06:38:59AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Argh. Hang on, I didn't do anything floating point. Why has it upgraded to > > PVNV? > > Because that's the way Perl does it. I hate it too. Yup, it dawned on me a few minutes after posting that we can't do much else because to discover whether you can use the integer addition/subtraction/etc. on, say, C<$a+3> you have to go through the whole looks_like_number thing to find out whether C<$a> is really an integer or a float. So it would lose anyway. Bletch. -- You're not Dave. Who are you?Thread Previous | Thread Next