> We never needed that,
I showed a use case producing short, self-explanatory code with the use of inf.

But what has that got to do with the whack/hack 1e9999 ?

 $ perl -le " print for 1 .. 0+'Inf'"
Range iterator outside integer range at -e line 1.
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sure, why not introducing one more level of cryptic workarounds to justify perl's reputation of a line-noise-language instead of having self explanatory constants?

you know, I linked to the docs, the explanation, and the inf constant exporters (bigrat/bigint )

perl is fundamentally what it is, and it works the way it has for over a decade, if you don't like it, don't use it; calling it line-noise and cryptic at every turn is uninspired and uninteresting

update:

well ... no comment on the fact of an AnoMonk who can update his nodes ...;-)

Boring :/

> perl is fundamentally what it is, and it works the way it has for over a decade, if you don't like it, don't use it; calling it line-noise and cryptic at every turn is uninspired and uninteresting

good arguments for Perl 4.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

good arguments for Perl 4

sure they're not