On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:19:44 -1000 (HST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Hoblitt) wrote:
> However the POSIX module is rather large and I think it's a rather > in-obvious place to look for a math function. I don't know; it's where I'd expect to see things which are in the "standard C library" (whatever that means) but aren't directly available as Perl functions. > So I'm proposing a simple module that allows access to the standard > C math lib's: log, log10, exp, and pow functions. All but log10 are already directly available from Perl (though 'pow' is spelled '**'), so I'm not sure what you win except for saving one division -- if you use log10 a lot, you can cache the value of log(10). All this is IMO; I don't speak for the namespace people. Cheers, Philip
