On 3/20/07, Rob Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip
You seem very indignant that Perl is offering you a floating-point result - it started giving 24.5 right at the beginning of its life! What are these languages you have used that give only an integer result for division? I can think of none off the top of my head. What do they return if you ask for 4/12*9?
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In many (if not most) statically typed languages, math with integer types produces integer types. A few examples are ANSI C, C++, Pascal, and Java. In those languages if you say 4/12*9 you get back 0. If you want 2.99999 then you need to be certain that you are doing floating point math, not integer math: 4.0/12*9. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
