int operations

[Eugene Tsyrklevich]

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Hello,


I have a question regarding integer operations. According to

$ perl -wle 'use Devel::Peek; $a=1; $a+=1; Dump($a)'
SV = PVNV(0x31540) at 0x6f24
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (NOK,pNOK)
  IV = 1
  NV = 2
  PV = 0

an integer operation '$a += 1;' converts $a to a floating-point type (NV).
I would expect perl to be able to figure out that $a+=1 should produce
an integer result (IV) but obviosuly it doesn't. I have also noticed that
PV type is created as well (with a null value).

After playing with some more examples the only way i could get an IV
value after an arithmetic operation was an explicit cast:

$a = int($i + $i2);



cheers,

eugene


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