Re: Numeric literals, take 1

Luke Palmer wrote:

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>>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;
>>>      
>>>
>>OK. So, what does this print?
>>
>>sub i {return 40}
>>
>>my $z = 2.3 + i;
>>print "z:$z\n";
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>>
>
>Presumably, C<i> is a keyword and it would be an error to say "sub i".
>

Why would C<i> be a keyword?  Its not in perl5, and I don't
remember any discussion where non-real numbers would
be part of the core language.