[perl #20661] Constant strings representing a number can BECOME numbers

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This is a bug report for perl from perl-5.8.0@ton.iguana.be,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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perl -wle 'sub fun { print+(shift() & "+0") eq "0" ? "yes" : "no"} fun("waf"); fun(0); fun("waf")'
perl -wle 'sub fun { my $str = shift; print "$str: ", ($str & "+0") eq "0" ? "numeric" : "string"} fun("waf"); fun(0); fun("waf")'
waf: string
0: numeric
Argument "waf" isn't numeric in bitwise and (&) at -e line 1.
waf: numeric

This was code attempting to determine if a passed argument was "really"
numeric at the perl level or not.

However, it seems that once "+0" has interacted in the & with a number, it
starts to behave like the number 0, so from then on on strings you get the
warning and and everything looks like a number.

While this is "normal" behaviour for variables, I don't think that 
constant strings like "+0" should do that.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by ton at Tue Nov 12 01:56:18 CET 2002.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.19, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
    uname='linux quasar 2.4.19 #5 wed oct 2 02:34:25 cest 2002 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=/lib/libc-2.2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.2.4'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux-thread-multi-64int-ld
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/ton
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/ton/bin.Linux:/home/ton/bin:/home/ton/bin.SampleSetup:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/jre/bin:/home/oracle/product/9.0.1/bin:/usr/local/ar/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/share/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:.
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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