On Thursday 24 April 2008 22:09, Larry Wall wrote: > > That makes me think of another way to confuse people who don't really > > know the difference between numbers and strings: > > > > $x = "-100"; > > $x++; > > say $x; # prints -101, not -99. > > Interesting point. At one time we had the increments autocoerce to Num > if the Str looked like a number. I don't recall why we removed that... > but this seems like a good argument for reinstating it. Would also > solve the "10" -> 9 problem, for some definition of "solve". > > Ah yes, if I recall, the argument was what to do with strings that > look like "123E42" when the E could be accidental. I can imagine a > filename "123.4e2. Or "0xF00D". But this now seems like a weaker > argument than decrementing "10" or incrementing "-100". So I think > I'll probably reinstate the "looks like a number", at least for > integers in decimal notation. We've got to scan the string anyway > to look for the final alphanumeric string anyway, so seeing if it's > pure digits with optional '-' on the front would not be any more > inefficient.
Do we still get to keep the current semantics if we specificially declare a string? e.g. my Str $x = "-100"; $x++; say $x; # prints -101 my $y = "-100"; $y++; say $y; # prints -99 Cheers, smuj -- smuj ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
