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Karl Williamson wrote: > > I don't understand most of what you are saying. I did this because I > got burned. In blead, doing a SvUOK(newSVuv(1)) returns FALSE. That > needs to be either changed or documented. Investigation showed that it > would return TRUE iff the value being stored won't fit in an IV. I > hoped that documenting it might cause people to question the current > design. > > Patches or wording suggestions welcome. My wording suggestion. ___________________________________________________________ Returns a boolean indicating whether the SV contains an integer which must be interpreted as unsigned. An integer whose value is within the range of both an IV and an UV maybe be flagged as either. ___________________________________________________________ Another note for nitpicking, none of the *OK macros return booleans (1 or 0). They return 0 or not 0. I don't want to say true/false either since that means something else in C++. Not sure if its worth correcting the "boolean" word or not, or its obvious that you will learn very quick to not compare it to 1.Thread Previous | Thread Next