Re: Operator function names

2001-10-17 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 07:33:42AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > Or something else. I'm assuming something else, because there may be > cases in which we want to define our own ternary operators. (Weird > cases perhaps, but cases nevertheless... > > operator:??($)::($) I'd expect that to be m

the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)

2001-10-17 Thread David Nicol
I am implementing a textbook algo in Perl (the textbook has it written in C++) and have realized that if undef was to numericize to NaN instead of 0, there are a lot of uninitialization errors that would get caught. use strict vars; does not recognize use of new array indices as uniti