Re: Numeric literals, take 1

Frank Wojcik wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:58:55PM +0100, Angel Faus wrote:
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>>The C<1i> and C<-1i> numbers can be also written
>>respectively, C<i> and C<-i>, so the previous example
>>could be rewritten:
>>
>> my $z = 2.3 + i;
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>>
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>OK. So, what does this print?
>
>sub i {return 40}
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>my $z = 2.3 + i;
>print "z:$z\n";
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Thats an easy one; it will print:

z::42.3


You can only expect so much out of the parser; moving from interpolating
simple scalars and arrays to interpolating full hashes and subs is already
a huge step.  Knowing to interpolate full expressions would be more
harmful than helpful.