An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Dec 28, 2020 19:59 UTC (Mon) by raiph (guest, #89283)
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2020 update of my own comment. One can now write type conversions like so:

my Num() $bar = 0.00001234

which will store a float in $bar by converting the rational 0.00001234.

Posted Dec 31, 2020 15:07 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Writing it as 0.00001234e0 also works. Spelling out exponents feels odd at first, but it turns out the same trick works in C.