Re: Fix 'abs' and 'neg' overloading for 64-bit ints (revised)

Okay.  Then withdraw it for now, and I'll keep working on
it.  Thanks.

On 10/10/07, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarezgmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to delay application of this patches and the
related ones to
> come until 5.10.0 is out. (64-bit testing is hard, due
to the many
> configurations and hardware involved)
>
> On 09/10/2007, Jerry D. Hedden <jdheddencpan.org> wrote:
> > This is my first patch for tackling the 64-bit int
overloading issues.
> >  It corrects the behavior of 'abs' and 'neg'
(unary minus):
> >
> > perl -lwe '{ package t0; sub mynum  use overload
> > "0+" => &mynum, fallback =>
1; } printf "%dn", abs(t0::mynum);
> > printf "%dn", abs(bless({},
"t0"))'
> >
> > perl -lwe '{ package t0; sub mynum  use overload
> > "0+" => &mynum, fallback =>
1; } printf "%dn", -&t0::mynum; printf
> > "%dn", -bless({}, "t0")'
> >
> > I revised the patch to treat refs as UVs which
made more sense to me.
> > Please check my work and provide feedback. 
Thanks.
> >
> >
>