Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >> BTW PerlInt.divide() always yields a PerlNum, this seems bogus to me. >> I think we need some clarification for the PerlNum implementation.
> That's right--perl math always ends up as floats. I'm not sure: $ perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'Dump 4.2/2.' SV = PVNV(0x8149f78) at 0x8124b78 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (NOK,READONLY,pIOK,pNOK) IV = 2 NV = 2.1 PV = 0 $ perl -MDevel::Peek -e 'Dump 4.2/2.1' SV = PVNV(0x8149f80) at 0x8124b78 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (IOK,NOK,READONLY,pIOK,pNOK) IV = 2 NV = 2 PV = 0 AFAIK is (IOK, pIOK) the same as a real IV. At least they look differently: $ perl -le 'print 4.2/2.1' 2 $ echo 'div N0, 4.2, 2.1 print N0 print "\n"' | parrot -a - 2.000000 > Dan leo
