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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:15:28AM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Urque? By the time you can are able to say C<$a+3> the looks_like_number > thing has already been done and you have an IV/UV/NV called $a. Eh? But $a may be a PV. If it's a PV, you have to re-examine it, at runtime, to see whether the PV contains an NV or an IV/UV. (If we want to split IV and NV treatment of arithmetic operators) At which point, you might as well just use the NV method anyway. -- "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting)Thread Previous | Thread Next