On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:25:21PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > > What REALLY worries me is that values that seem to be numbers, but are > > in fact garbage ARE going to screw my average up. I dare Perl6 to fix > > that for me. > > It's not going to. Getting NaN as a result in this context should be a > *really* big clue that Perl's found some garbage that it didn't > understand. If you want to know where then CHECK YOUR VALUES.
You misunderstood me. Yes, you'll get NaN if your garbage happens to not look like a number. But, this can give me no more sense of security than I had before, since garbage that happens to look like a number will still work "correctly". Perl cannot find errors in my data, it can only guess badly. Let *me* worry about my data, please and assume that if I asked for a cat to pull my sled, I really wanted a cat to pull my sled, not some much larger member of the cat familly that will turn around and eat my children. Umm, perhaps that metaphor was a tad stretched ;-) -- Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for GPG info. Fingerprint: www.ajs.com/~ajs 6DC1 F67A B9FB 2FBA D04C 619E FC35 5713 2676 CEAF "Write your letters in the sand for the day I'll take your hand In the land that our grandchildren knew." -Queen/_'39_
