Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > use constant INFINITY => 100 ** 100 ** 100 ; > use constant NEG_INFINITY => -1 * (100 ** 100 ** 100); > > I remember this (how to produce an numeric infinity) coming up on > perl5-porters and seem to recall that the above just coredumps on some > platforms.
The idea came from a perlmonks discussion. I've got positive reports from mac, pc, linux and sun users. I'll look into perl5-porters... - Flavio S. Glock
