RE: RE: RE (tilly) 3: The Big Test

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RE (tilly) (lots): The Big Test by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 18, 2000 at 05:29 UTC
What happens if someone tosses a `use integer;` [download] in at the beginning of the file? Same effect if you take that habit to many other languages. Just because it works doesn't mean that it isn't a really bad idea.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: RE: RE (tilly) 3: The Big Test by extremely (Priest) on Oct 18, 2000 at 05:34 UTC
Because some math illiterate always tries it with 2.5 to see if a number is divisible evenly with it... ala: `if ($num/2.5 == int($num/2.5)) {print "$num even!\n":} Evil!` If they didn't understand it when they did that, how do you explain to them why they are wrong? I usually resorted to "Mr. G? Kelly has a question about her code..." =) -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply] [d/l]