Re: The day after the first Wednesday of every month - was Re: London.pm Meeting - April 5th

David Cantrell wrote:
> My favourite operator is =~, pronounced
"approximately equal to".
What an excellent idea!

Useful for testing floats.

Particularly in this context:  http://xkcd.com/c217.html

Andrew

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:00:42AM +0100, Andrew Beattie
wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
> >My favourite operator is =~, pronounced
"approximately equal to".
> What an excellent idea!
> 
> Useful for testing floats.
> 
> Particularly in this context:  http://xkcd.com/c217.html

This wonderful URL points to a patch I sent to p5p a few
years back.

http://groups.
google.com/group/perl.perl5.porters/browse_thread/thread/3b8
9b58fc3a6693d/f9d760f0ef08e4b9?lnk=st&q=warn_numeric&
;rnum=1#f9d760f0ef08e4b9

For some reason it was never appplied.  I suspect that was
just an oversight.

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