Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-17 21:06 (-0800): > oct and hex are arguably misnamed, since most functions are named by > what they produce, not by what they take as input. I don't know what > the replacement should be, though. Maybe it's not worth fixing.
+"0x$_" # hex +"0o$_" # oct +"0b$_" # bin (does not exist in Perl 5) This does require that strings numify the same way literals do, but I think that's a sane approach anyhow. Now that leading 0 no longer means the number is octal, I can't think of a good reason to keep the contrast between literal strings numified during compile time and variable strings during runtime. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
