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in reply to Re^5: (almost) foldl
in thread (almost) foldl

The point is that '1e' is not a valid number in Perl, so your answer of 7 is at best flawed.

C:\test>perl -Mstrict -wE"say 0+'1e'" Argument "1e" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1. 1

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