An otherwise interesting question that comes up periodically, but -- for the logic behind the question: "Why are you still beating your wife?" Assumption is made that Perl (or any other language using floats) is doing the wrong thing instead of assuming that something is wrong, but you don't know what.

Update: sundialsvc4 is correct that the original is presented as "Have you stopped beating your wife?", but there is a slightly different twist on that presented by the OP - a direct accusation that Perl is currently doing something wrong, not that in the past, Perl has done something wrong. Therefore my change on the original.

--MidLifeXis

In reply to Re: Why does perl math suck? by MidLifeXis
in thread Why does perl math suck? by sharkey

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