In a message dated Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Luke Palmer writes:
> Why would bitwise have anything but integer signatures. What does
> 4.56 | 2.81 mean? Also, should perl lossily convert real to int, or give
> an error if it can't?
Seems to me that that's a decision that has to be made for each function.
sub needsInt (int $a) {
# Perl will throw exception if passed real
...
}
sub convertIntSilently (real $a) {
$a = int($a);
...
}
sub warnUnlessInt (real $a) {
warn Error::LossyConversion.new(target => $a, to => int)
unless $a.isa(int);
$a = int($a);
...
}
(I'm just making up that warn statement, obviously...)
Trey
