On 11/01/2014 03:35 AM, David Schmitt wrote: > On 2014-11-01 01:22, Henrik Lindberg wrote: > > The requirement to compare strings and numerals can also be > implemented by converting the numeral to a string (using a canoical > non-locale dependent format). This produces a much safer route, as > creating a string has less degrees of freedom. I believe this is the perl5 approach, which seems to be robust. >> >> * Add === operator to compare both type and value. This is a slippery >> slope since we probably want Integer and Float to compare equal - say >> 0.0 and 0. It adds yet another operator, and we have to decide what >> case, selector and in should use since there is no way to specify if one >> or the other should be used. Oh hell no! >> >> # best effort, or fail >> convert_to(Number, value) It would require changes to the lexer but another syntactic option (not that I'm advocating it) would be C style type coercion.
(String)$my_hungarian_integer -Josh -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/5455F711.80004%40cpan.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
