$ cat t use bigrat; print 1/3 + 1/4,"\n"; # produces 7/12 $ perl -d t Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.33 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(t:2): print 1/3 + 1/4,"\n"; # produces 7/12 DB<1> print 1/3 + 1/4,"\n" 0.583333333333333 DB<2> n 7/12 Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart, use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination, h q, h R or h o to get additional info. $ perl -v This is perl 5, version 14, subversion 2 (v5.14.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 75 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)