At 8:04 PM +0100 5/17/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:37:32PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> Pssst. Brent. Don't tell anyone, but ~0 *is* -1... :)
>
>$ perl -le 'print ~0'
>4294967295
>$ perl -le 'print -1'
>-1
>
>What language were we talking about? :-)
C, of course. Perl's floating point and integer semantics are another
matter entirely. Pity that Doing The Right Thing is such a pain. :(
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