int(rand() + 1), int(rand()) +1, and hashes

[Eugene Tsyrklevich]

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On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 11:17:07AM -0700, C. Abney wrote:
> ~sdpm~
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Eugene Tsyrklevich wrote:
> 
> > doesn't make sense right? i mean both number are supposed to be integers..
> 
> I think I'd hesitate before calling it a "feature", if that's what you mean
> by 'sense'. :)
> 
> I admit my case was pretty marginal (int's as hash keys) but you've shown
> that it's a general feature of Perl with your $a+=1 example.  Using a float
> as an array index is fairly common practice <g> so the Perl Porters probably
> stuck in the auto-truncate rule in the compiler?  I can't see doing this for
> hash keys though... too wierd.  I think I'm learning too much about perl's



hash keys are supposed to be strings (perl does the translation for you
i.e. float -> string)



> internals (I'd rather be playing with Markov chains...)



combine the two :-)
http://search.cpan.org/doc/ALANSZ/Decision-Markov-0.01/Markov.pm

(not really markov chains but close enough :)
 

> So for a weak-typed language like Perl maybe it is a 'feature'.  I assumed
> arithmetic type rules were like C's.



it's not a feature. more like a bug. i talked to mjd and he asked me
to post the question to comp.lang.perl.moderated. i did and i CC'd thist list
as well. we will see what comes out of it



> Thanks for the tip on Devel.pm!
> 
> CA
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