At 9:07 PM +0100 1/30/07, TSa wrote:
BTW, does floor return an Int or a Num?
A floor() returns an Int of course, because by definition floor()
returns an integer. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor_function
for an explanation. Same with ceiling(), and some other operators.
If anything,
HaloO Larry,
you wrote:
Num-to-Int autocoercion is an explicit exception built into the
language. Perl 5 programmars would lynch us if we broke it. But yes,
it's basically cheating.
In your array subscript reply you conceded that flooring
is better behaved than truncation. Which would mean t
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:02:59PM +0100, TSa wrote:
: How are coercions handled when calling functions?
:
: sub identity ( Int $i ) { return $i }
:
: my Num $x = 3.25;
:
: say indentity($x); # prints 3 or type error? Or even 3.25?
:
: I'm opting for type error on the footing that Int <:
