Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)

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> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:28:38 -0800
> From: Michael Lazzaro <[email protected]>
>
> Of course, a key issue is that, in perl5, the treatment of numeric 
> literals is not at all the same as the treatment of stringified 
> numerics.  For example:
> 
>      0x00ff     # hex value ff
>     '0x00ff'    # integer value 0, with trailing 'x00ff'
> 
> I think ways to solve this should be open to discussion.  Hopefully 
> Luke can give us some proposals, since he's writing that part.

The behavior described there should stay.  If you want literal-like
interpretations of strings, use the C<oct> function.  The name of that
function should probably be changed to something more appropriate.

C<lit>, C<literal>, C<num> (ambiguous?), C<base>, etc.?

Luke