At 12:48 AM 3/17/2007 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Incidentally, perl is a typeless language, compounding the problem even more. That is, perl >converts a variable or literal to an integer, a floating point double, or text string on-the-fly as >needed. A single line of perl code may hide several such conversions within the perl core, >with each operation adding more onto the error until it becomes noticeable.
Which is probably the single biggest flaw in Perl. It borders on the Microsoft-esque in the things it does behind ur back trying to figure out what it thinks u *want*. And u had *better* want it mister! Probably only javascript has a worse arithmetic engine. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
