On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:07:41 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Also, Larry Wall has allowed Perl 5 numeric constants to contain > underscore so you can write 10**9 as 1_000_000_000 instead of 1000000000 > which is much less readable and also more error-prone. (Larry Wall)++ .
1E9 seems to capture your intention even better :-) -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/perl3/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
