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I think it does the right thing now and if directed to the relevant paragraph of perldoc I will attempt to submit a modification it making clear something to the effect that "Once a string has been evaluated as a number, it is considered to be numeric, for warning purposes, until it is loaded with a new string, at which time conversion to a number will be deferred until again needed." go PMAW! On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:23:50PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > > > The implementation caches the numeric result, and uses that next time round, > > > > before it gets a chance to warn. It's been this way since (at least) 5.005_03 > > > > (which is the oldest perl I have hanging around) > > > > > > > > So is this a bug? Advice from Klortho #11943 suggests not: > > > > > > Not a bug. > > So you could say you should never cache if the conversion > could have generated a warning. > > Cheers, > -Jan that idea is so tail-wagging-the-dog.Thread Previous | Thread Next