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On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:45:25PM +0200, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> So, here is a proposal to try making this situation a bit better:
> annotate the SV to record the initial (or canonical) type of the the
> value, that is the type of the value that was last affected to the SV.
But I don't think that necessarily solves the problem. Consider:
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
my ($x,$y) = split / /, $_;
my $z = sqrt($x*$x + $y*$y);
... serialise $x, $y, $z;
}
__DATA__
0.123 1.234
...
should $x, $y be serialised as strings or floats? I think the desire of
the programmer would be for them to be floats, but the canonical form is
string. In other words, the initial type still doesn't necessarily DWIM,
and its still up to the programmer to manually ensure the output is as
desired.
Also I think you'll be hard pushed to find any spare bits in sv_flags to
record this info.
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