Re^6: [OT: JavaScript] JS remainder operation ('%')

Wouldn't it be better to s/perl/print/g here?

That would be better. (Some might even argue that "perl's interpolation" would be the more strictly accurate replacement - since all print() does is to output what perl has interpolated ... but that sort of thinking is way too moot for me to understand ;-)

IMHO your statement is misleading as it is, because it's limited to output by print and doesn't effect internal representation.

I don't quite follow that. The only problem is the print function (or perl's interpolation of NV's or whatever we should call it).
There's no issue with perl's internal representation of doubles, since 5.30.0.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^7: [OT: JavaScript] JS remainder operation ('%') by LanX (Saint) on Jan 18, 2024 at 15:04 UTC
> Some might even argue that "perl's interpolation That's a very good point! But it's not the interpolation, but more generally the stringification . `use v5.12; use warnings; $a= 1-1e-16; printf "%.16f\n",$a; printf "%.16f\n",("".$a);` [download] `0.9999999999999999 1.0000000000000000` [download] Consequently this should be documented for stringification, and print should reference it. Update Apart from mentions in `perlglossary` and `overload` there is not much on stringification to be found in perldocs :/ https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#stringification Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^7: [OT: JavaScript] JS remainder operation ('%')
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 18, 2024 at 15:04 UTC

> Some might even argue that "perl's interpolation

That's a very good point!

But it's not the interpolation, but more generally the stringification .

 
use v5.12;
use warnings;

$a= 1-1e-16;

printf "%.16f\n",$a;
printf "%.16f\n",("".$a);
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0.9999999999999999 1.0000000000000000
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Consequently this should be documented for stringification, and print should reference it.

Update

Apart from mentions in perlglossary and overload there is not much on stringification to be found in perldocs :/

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlglossary#stringification

Cheers Rolf
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see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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