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List:       velocity-user
Subject:    Re: floating point types
From:       James Maes <jmaes () sportingnews ! com>
Date:       2001-08-28 21:29:09
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On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:21 pm, you wrote:
> On 8/29/01 5:02 AM, "Jon Stevens" <jon@latchkey.com> wrote:
> > on 8/28/01 12:01 PM, "James Maes" <jmaes@sportingnews.com> wrote:
> >> Why not do something more like perl.  A scalar type that is open to what
> >> ever type needed.
> >
> > $scalar.convert("10.1")
> > $scalar.convert("10,1")
>
> Sure.  That's perl like...  How about
>
> $!("10.1")->$#
>
> Or something...
>
> Geir

I was just thinking of something more like the fact the perl programmers do 
not have to care about which type they want.  It's handled for them.  I'm did 
not imply syntax, just functionality.



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