> Most probable reason you are seeing what you saw -> you did "use feature 'bitwise'" earlier in your debugging session. bitwise forces plain | to numeric.

There was no "use feature 'bitwise'" inside the debugger.

:~$ perl -de0

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.77
...
  DB<1> say (0 . "$_" | 1 . "1") for qw/0 2 4 6 8/
11
11
15
15
11

  DB<2>

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but the interactive debugger seems to automatically run under -E

  • E commandline
    behaves just like -e, except that it implicitly enables all optional features and builtin functions (in the main compilation unit). See feature and builtin.

    • Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    In reply to Re^10: converting binary to decimal by LanX
    in thread converting binary to decimal by harangzsolt33

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