raptor wrote: > | It's bothered me that I can write 100_000 in my perl code, but if I have > | a string "100_000" it'll evaluate to 100 when numerified. It would be > | really weird if "10indigo" became 10i, "1e3foobar" became 1000, and > | "10_000" became 10 in Perl 6 IMHO. > > ]- Agree if u want this in strings then use : > "$( 10i ) ndigo" > "$( 1e3 ) foobar"
In your own code of course, it's easy now in Perl 5 $x=1e3.' foobar'; but the main problem is with external input, which could be "1_000" but I don't think "$(1_000)" (and I hope that the $(...) in input won't be evaluated anyway). - RaFaL Pocztarski, [EMAIL PROTECTED]