An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 27, 2015 0:03 UTC (Mon) by mchapman (subscriber, #66589)
In reply to: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice) by Cyberax
Parent article: An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

> Like not being able to tell whether it's float, rational or bigint.

Perl guarantees it's a scalar. If the result is an integer, the scalar will "look like" an integer. If the result is a floating-point value, the scalar will "look like" an integer.

"Looks like" in Perl is as strong a guarantee as "has a type of" in Python or some other languages. I would like to think you are merely unwilling to acknowledge this idea, not incapable of it. Either way though, I don't think there's anything more I have to say on the matter.

An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 27, 2015 0:06 UTC (Mon) by mchapman (subscriber, #66589) [Link]

> ... the scalar will "look like" an integer.

And obviously that should be "... floating-point value".