Re: [Fwd: Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)]

[Dave Whipp]

Richard Nuttall wrote:

How about

my $a = 256:192.169.34.76;
my $b = $a.base(10);
my $c = '34:13.23.0.1.23.45'.base(16);

This coupling makes me nervous. A number is a number: its value is not effected by its representation.

I can see that, in some scripts, it might be useful to define a property such that:

my $a = 26 but string_fmt("%02x"); # == ("%16.02r")
print $a, "$a", ~$a, sprintf("%s", +$a);

would print "26 1a 1a 26" (without the spaces).

However, I would not like to see such a property set by default. It has the potential to cause too many surprises for the unsuspecting recipient
of a number, who suddenly finds it behaves in funny ways.


Dave.