Bryan Harris: > I just ran into this today, and have no clue what's going on: > > % perl -e 'print 10-5.5, "\n"' > 4.5 > % perl -e 'print 10-05.5, "\n"' > 55
Nice catch. I would also have assumed that the '.' is stronger that the octal-0. I still think it should be. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>