----- Original Message ----- From: "Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 2:24 PM Subject: Ping? [PATCH] Re: [perl #36654] Inconsistent treatment of NaN
> Can the patches in: > http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/103801 > and > http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/103906 > > be applied (or receive feedback)? Thanks. > > Hi, Is this a question directed to me ? (If so, I don't feel qualified to answer.) Alternatively, perhaps this is just a CC to me (though there's nothing to suggest that's so) of a question being asked of someone else - in which case my reply can be ignored :-) One thing which surprised me a little was the notion that NaN should be assigned to a scalar as a string, rather than a bareword. My expectation was that the *converse* would be encouraged. Since numeric values are normally assigned as barewords, I thought that NaN and Inf would likewise be assigned as barewords. Perhaps that's just me being weird. Anyway - if the above-mentioned patches are going to make for better consistency, then I have no objection to their being applied. Cheers, Rob
