Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > > > So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve > > the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal > > being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit num

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > So then the lexically scoped operator:+ wouldn't be able to achieve > the goal of my suggested implicit numerification warning... the goal > being the ability to ensure that there are no implicit numerifications, > that all numeri

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Glenn Linderman
Larry Wall wrote: > Aaron Sherman writes: > : On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > : > > : > Glenn wrote: > : > > : >> > Have I missed anything? > : >> > : >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. > : >> > : >>[snip] > : >> > : >> Perl 6 coul

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
Aaron Sherman writes: : On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: : > : > Glenn wrote: : > : >> > Have I missed anything? : >> : >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. : >> : >>[snip] : >> : >> Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning o

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:30:00AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: > > Glenn wrote: > >> > Have I missed anything? >> >> Perhaps you've missed one thing. >> >>[snip] >> >> Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning on the first >> run-time auto-numerificat

Re: Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-24 Thread Damian Conway
Glenn wrote: > > Have I missed anything? > > Perhaps you've missed one thing. > >[snip] > > Perl 6 could provide a pragma to produce a warning on the first > run-time auto-numerification (compile time would be really hard to > do), together with a selection of diff

Beating string numerification to death [Was: Re: the handiness of undef becoming NaN (when you want that)]

2001-10-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
Damian Conway wrote: > Have I missed anything? Perhaps you've missed one thing. It was kind of in a different branch of the thread, about string numerification yielding NaN when given input that is "bad" according to some definition of "badness". It was clear from discussion that various contr