Consistency is good.
A case could be made for either truncating to integer, or rounding to
integer.
I'm inclined toward round - since int() is a builtin (round isn't),
which makes it easy to get the truncate behavior. And one is more
likely to get a mathematically sensible result.
On the other
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 4:18 AM Peter John Acklam
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I would like some input on how the Math::BigInt module and bigint pragma
> should handle non-integers. The current behaviour is rather inconsistent.
>
> The new() constructor converts a non-integer to a Math::BigInt NaN:
>
> $
Hi!
I would like some input on how the Math::BigInt module and bigint pragma
should handle non-integers. The current behaviour is rather inconsistent.
The new() constructor converts a non-integer to a Math::BigInt NaN:
$ perl -MMath::BigInt -wle 'print Math::BigInt -> new("3.16")'
NaN
A
