On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 at 20:43:40 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "IP" == Ian Phillipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IP> I feel sure this is a FAQ...
> trust your feelings. i didn't answer because it IS an FAQ. FAQ's aren't
> fun. :)
Oh, I don't know. My solution is a few strokes better than the FAQ's :-)
> perldoc -q number
I called up that very command, and somehow failed to see the relevant
section. Moral - don't post at 1 AM.
But even though I was too tired to read straight, I could still debug
regexs. Should I be worried?
On a philosophical note, the suggestions involving asking perl via
$SIG{__WARN__} are closer to the mark IMO. The most useful definition is,
after all, "will perl convert this to a numerical format without
complaint?". After all, something that looks like "1+2i" is a number if
it happens to be a Math::Complex object.
And "No such file or directory" is a number, two.
Ian
