Re: Numeric Literals (Summary)
[email protected] (Jonathan Scott Duff) Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:41:13 -0600
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.documentation |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:22:03PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > 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.? It should be C<literal> so that it can remove delimiting quotes from strings too. :-) Seriously, I like C<num> or C<literal> or even C<numify>. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [email protected]