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On 6 May 2013 12:02, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> 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.
Personally i think most serialization module authors would consider
the canonical form to be the string, not the NV.
Consider what should happen if the data line was
__DATA__
0.123x 0.1234x
Yves
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