Damian Conway: # > The example can be rewritten # > # > print "Inflation rate: " and $inflation = +<> # > while $inflation != $inflation; # # Err. No it can't.
His point was that the NaN IEEE came up with is defined to have NaN != NaN, and that it might be confusing if Perl's behavior wasn't consistent with that. Not that I think NaN != NaN is a particularly good idea, but consistency with other languages may be. If NaN != NaN, then his example is correct. P.S. Congratulations to you and Larry for waking up perl6-language. I had seen almost no traffic on it in weeks, and was starting to get a bit worried that thoughts on the languages were coughing, sputtering and dying. :^) --Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Configure pumpking for Perl 6 They *will* pay for what they've done.
