"Randy W. Sims" wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> package NumStr;
This makes sense to me. As a package, it makes sense to have overloaded operations.
This is why I was asking if the value was really stored as a number.
> use strict;
>
...
> printf("as number = '%d', as string = '%s'\n", $ns, $ns);
>
> __END__
>
> You can simulate more closely with XS:
>
> #include "EXTERN.h"
> #include "perl.h"
> #include "XSUB.h"
Looks interesting, but I am not really familiar enough with XS to know what to make of
it.
I'll look at it again when I've had some time to check out the XS libraries.
Joseph
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