# The following was supposedly scribed by
# David Golden
# on Monday 28 February 2005 07:07 pm:
>Which would you prefer?
>
>� � $ perl -le '$x=1/0; print $x+1' � �
>� � Illegal division by zero at -e line 1.
>
>or
>
>� � $ perl -le '$x=1/0; print $x+1' � �
>� � 1
I like the one where you get the mathematically-correct (or at least
mathematically-useful) infinity.
$perl -le 'use bigint; $x = 1/0; print $x+1'
inf
$perl -le 'use bigint; $x = 1/0; print 1/$x'
0
--Eric
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