in reply to Re^4: is it a BigInt bug?
in thread is it a BigInt bug?

Yes, I think this is a bigint bug:

#! perl use strict; use warnings; use bigint; my $m = '10'; my $k = '2'; ++$k; print $m / $k, "\n"; print $k->sign(), "\n";

Output:

13:45 >perl 992_SoPW.pl 3.33333333333333 Can't locate object method "sign" via package "3" (perhaps you forgot +to load "3"?) at 992_SoPW.pl line 10. 13:45 >

This shows that ++ is failing to convert $k into a BigInt object. But change the line ++$k; to $k += 1; and the output is now as expected:

13:45 >perl 992_SoPW.pl 3 + 13:46 >

The documentation for bigint claims:

All operators (including basic math operations) except the range operator .. are overloaded.

But this doesn’t appear to be true for autoincrement.

Hope that helps,

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