"use integer;" works on fixed point values INDEPENDENTLY of how many bits the machine has or how many bits are needed to represent a given value. Limiting it to fixed point assures that the functionality is injective. What you are asking for would downgrade it to non-injective, i.e. would make it work and not work according to a bits-needed comparison between a) the value being operated on and b) the size of the registers in the machine.

I have meanwhile thought of another way to get what you want: sprintf. If the number is floating point, it internally uses the C sprintf, thereby achieving much high performance for your requirement than changing the meaning of use integer ever could anyway.

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In reply to Re^3: Exasperated with 64-bit integer builds of perl by Moron
in thread Exasperated with 64-bit integer builds of perl by syphilis

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