perl is such a cool language. i never knew you can represent numbers this way:
my $number = 3_151_592_653; print ++$number, "\n"; i can easily see that $number represents "three billion one hundred fifty one million five hundred ninety two thousand six hundred fifty three". if, instead, i saw: my $number = 3151592653; print ++$number, "\n"; i'd be sitting there all day trying to figure out what this number is. perl will balk if you use an underscore in anything other than groups of three, as in: my $number = 3_151_592_53; jeez, for all the numerical stuff i do for research, i wish C had something like this built in! pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
