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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote: > I would agree with this (caching converted representations should not > be detectable at the language level). Unfortunately some operations > are *documented* to behave otherwise: > > | The auto-increment operato > > (From perlop.pod; note the phrase "used in a numeric context") > > Personally I consider these design mistakes, but I also don't think we > can undo them anymore either. Just some of the warts we have to live > with. Can we at least collect a list of operations that care here on the mailing list, for reference? The ones I know about are the increment operator (++), the range operator (.. ...), and the bitwise operators (& | ^) which all care about whether the scalar has been used as a number. AmbrusThread Previous | Thread Next