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On Fri Sep 26 14:03:50 2014, jhi wrote:
> On Friday-201409-26, 16:49, Father Chrysostomos (via RT) wrote:
> > "Inf" and 0+Inf have the same numeric and string representations, so
> > chr should treat them the same way. Either we should revert to
> > treating inf as 0 (or 0xff, whichever), or make chr("Inf") die, too.
>
> Death.
This is more exciting than I thought:
$ perl5.21.5 -le 'print pack "A3", 0+inf'
Cannot pack Inf with 'A' at -e line 1.
That one shouldn’t be sentenced.
I probably won’t get my patch written tonight, because it’s more involved than I realised. But I’m working on it....
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Father Chrysostomos
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via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122856
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