On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:13:46AM +, Fergal Daly wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:55:36PM -0600, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
I like the one where you get the mathematically-correct (or at least
mathematically-useful) infinity.
$perl -le 'use bigint; $x = 1/0; print $x+1'
inf
Austin Schutz wrote:
I suppose I could try to create a use divide 0/undef/inf/crap pragma.
Then you could do whatever you want. You'd still get a surprise if you ever
forgot it though..
I think that's the best answer. Not a good idea for most programs,
wonderful idea for math programs -
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:43:31AM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
running this Perl program:
use strict;
sub div_by_zero { exec(./a.out $_[0]); die should not be here }
defined(my $pid = fork()) or die fork: $!;
if ($pid == 0) {
warn child, my pid $$\n;
div_by_zero(0); # sig 8
Austin Schutz wrote:
This is not related to the original topic, but I've always
wondered this: In math a number divided by 0 is undefined. Why is it
that in a language which has an undefined value does the interpreter
poop out rather than just having the intuitively obvious behavior of
# The following was supposedly scribed by
# David Golden
# on Monday 28 February 2005 07:07 pm:
Which would you prefer?
$ perl -le '$x=1/0; print $x+1'
Illegal division by zero at -e line 1.
or
$ perl -le '$x=1/0; print $x+1'
1
I like the one where you get the
