in reply to Perl6::Rules Rules

Just for the heck of it, I'd thought I'd throw out the perl5 version...
$oporm = qr{[+-]?}; $digit = qr{\d}; $fixed = qr{ $oporm $digit+ \.? $digit* | $oporm $digit* \.? $digit+ }x; $scino = qr{ $fixed [eE] $oporm $digit+ | $fixed | $digit+ }x; sub is_scino { my $num = shift; if ($num =~ m/^$scino$/) { $num = $num + 0; # is this really necessary? return $num; } return undef; } sub is_fixed { my $num = shift; if ($num =~ m/^$fixed$/) { $num = $num + 0; return $num; } return undef; }


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