The day after the first Wednesday of every month - was Re: London.pm Meeting - April 5th

Paul Johnson paul at pjcj.net
Thu Mar 29 14:10:25 BST 2007


On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:00:42AM +0100, Andrew Beattie wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> >My favourite operator is =~, pronounced "approximately equal to".
> What an excellent idea!
> 
> Useful for testing floats.
> 
> Particularly in this context:  http://xkcd.com/c217.html

This wonderful URL points to a patch I sent to p5p a few years back.

http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/browse_thread/thread/3b89b58fc3a6693d/f9d760f0ef08e4b9?lnk=st&q=warn_numeric&rnum=1#f9d760f0ef08e4b9

For some reason it was never appplied.  I suspect that was just an oversight.

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