Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: "2.0" doesn't look like an integer to me

Author:Ken MacLeod
Posted:1/19/1999; 3:46:35 PM
Topic:Frontier on MacOS X Server
Msg #:2277 (In response to 2275)
Prev/Next:2276 / 2278

>>Perl may think that 2.0 is an int, but I'm not sure anyone else agrees ;-)

:-) Yes, that's a bug in the marshaling. The change I suggested earlier (adding new datatypes to %scalars) doesn't affect the encoding, just the decoding :-(

>>Your echo server converts booleans to integers too, by the way.

We'll probably want to have a solid spec for how to handle that because Perl doesn't have booleans at all.

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