David L. Nicol wrote:
> First off, I'm going to pound on one of my deceased horses a bit:
I'll add one obligatory thwack with my own barbed flog, David. Hear hear.
> > my Num $dec = 4.0;
> > my Int $int = $dec; # Num -> Int okay since 4.0 truncates to 4
> > # with no(?) information lost
>
> You have lost information. You have lost one digit of precision.
> That is not insignificant.
Correction: You have added an infinite number of digits of precision.
Integers have infinite precision.
> This would be a nice thing to have a pragmata for, what hash refs
> stringify to.
Um, one pragma.
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John Porter
