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So it means that internally doing eq on a "number" is like doing the appropriate sprintf and == and that's how "extrapolation" of a number into a string works ?

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Re^4: perl numeric expressions
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Nov 28, 2005 at 14:39 UTC
    not really sure of the gory details. But I think the term you want if you're going to be googling around for more info could be "stringification". The opposite would be "nummification."

    UPDATE: But you better double check that. These may be perl 6 only terms. (And it was just a guess.)

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