I can live with NaN+0=NaN and Inf+0=Inf..

It's just a matter of understanding the process.
If you can accept that '42.31' + 0 is 42.31 and '42.31ormation' + 0 is 42.31 and 'inf' + 0 is Inf, then it makes perfect sense that 'information' + 0 is Inf.
Then, once you understand that the int() function merely chops off the fractional part of its argument, there's not much left to puzzle over, AFAICS.

This process that perl is using to numify strings is the same as that used by the strtod() function in the C programming language.
I think it's a fairly standard process across many programming languages.
It's not about to change any time soon.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: Weird behavior of int() by syphilis
in thread Weird behavior of int() by cLive ;-)

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