Re: mixed numeric and string SVs.

[Nicholas Clark]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:00:47AM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> struct {
>     IV whatitis;

more a perl5 question - why IV not int?
int might be smaller and "more natural" (your words)
eg why does looks_like_number return IV not int? and various other bits
of the perl API use IV?

Nicholas Clark