Re: The value of +"hello"

2005-08-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:00:14AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : If we go with class names being the undefined prototypical values, : and if we assume that NaN is an "unthrown exception" variant of : the undefined value for object types like Num, then we might even : end up with Num == NaN, albeit wit

Re: The value of +"hello"

2005-08-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:48:22PM +0200, Daniel Brockman wrote: : Exegesis 3 contains this snippet, : :my $inflation; :print "Inflation rate: " and $inflation = +<> :until $inflation != NaN; : : but the rule that +"hello" evaluates to NaN is "no longer" : mentioned in S03, accord

The value of +"hello"

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Brockman
Exegesis 3 contains this snippet, my $inflation; print "Inflation rate: " and $inflation = +<> until $inflation != NaN; but the rule that +"hello" evaluates to NaN is "no longer" mentioned in S03, according to Autrijus. He suggested I post here to get a ruling. -- Daniel Brockman