I'm trying to generate a range between two large integers

This works: 
use bignum; 
my $x = 2**1024; 
for ( $i = $x; $i <= ($x+2); $i++) { 
  say $i
};

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But this does not: 
use bignum;
my $x = 2**1024
for( $x .. $x+2 ) {
  say
}

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Naturally, I prefer the latter for readability. I've never liked c-style loops, and this is really doesn't seem to be the place for them.

The second example aborts with "Range iterator outside integer range". Am I missing something here? Is there another way where I can keep the ( $x.. $x+2) version? 2**1024 is the maximum integer that I will have to deal with, and the C-style loop allows it only when I use bignum (but not Math::BigInt)


- Boldra

In reply to big integers forcing me to be a C programmer: "range iterator outside integer range" by Boldra

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