in reply to Re: Strange behaviour when printing certain numeric values
in thread Strange behaviour when printing certain numeric values

Floating point parsing has been improved. For 5.8 users something from a distant future.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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