Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:53:37 -0800
>> From: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>
>> If anyone knows the answer to these two questions, I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> 1) What do these do?
>>
>> my int $n = 5; # OK
>> my int $n = 5.005; # trunc or err?
>
> Trunc. Int context, you know :)
>
>> my int $n = "5.05ff" # 5, 0, undef, NaN, or exception?
>
> If it's like Perl5, 5.05. But there could be reason to make it an
> exception. Dunno on that one. I would say 5.05 for now, until
> someone with authority corrects it.
>
>> my int $n = "fdsjfdf" # 0, undef, NaN, or exception?
>
> Likewise here. There could also be reason to have this behave
> differently from the last one. Though, I would say 0 for now.
Well, it's restricted to either 0 or an exception since you can't use
an int to store anything else (like, for instance the PMCs associate
with either undef or NaN).
Hmm, what does
NaN.isa('Number')
return?
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
