Re: NaN semantics

2001-10-12 Thread Mark
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a think about this a few days ago. I can't see how to do fractions > in Roman Numerals. > integers and exponents in E notation should all be easy, shouldn't they? No major problem for fractions. As for irrational numbers... Mark.

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2001-10-12 Thread David Nicol
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > I'll agree as long as we make the string "1e2foo" evaluate to 1 in a > numeric context rather than 100 (as it does in perl 5 now). Ouch. I wonder what mysterious problems that is causing. Hmm. So "match a number" has grown from $MatchaFloat = qr'(?:\+|\