* muppet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-04 19:55]:
> Now, perl's looks_like_number() function is implemented like
> this:
>
> [snip]
> 
> It would be interesting to know which of those tests is failing
> here. Are we failing on bad handling of get magic? Does the
> Readonly variable refuse to be coerced into a string?

Coercion generally modifies the scalar in Perl to cache the
coerced value. It sounds quite plausible that Readonly prevents
this and is therefore causing these failures indirectly via that
route. But that’s just a hypothesis.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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