Re: String to Num (was Re: Numeric Literals (Summary))

"Larry Wall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:57:33AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> : .... and _I'm_ trying to promote the reuse of the old "oct/hex"
> : functions to do a similar both-way thing, such that:
>
> What's a two-way function supposed to return if you pass it something
> that has both a string and a numeric value?  Convert it both directions?

It returns a junction, of course ;-)

Seriously though, I dislike the proposal. Of course, if we have a
'do-it-as-a-string' operator modifier (As discussed for bitops, etc), then
we could have:

  ~hex(10) eq 'a'
  hex(10) eq '16'

But I still tend to read that ~ as a 1's complement.


Dave.