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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-02-19 20:29:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-02-19 20:29:26 +0000 |
| commit | 99819a14977e25f4ffd5fe19db3f3e492417275e (patch) | |
| tree | 1c6e4f305e19251f2abee34f3db7df7c5c4ae761 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | edc6b40be43839b24056bb32427509ec1367d50a (diff) | |
| download | perl-99819a14977e25f4ffd5fe19db3f3e492417275e.tar.gz | |
Be explicit about what ops work with bt vectors.
(And implicit about which don't.)
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5157
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 8327a6887d..c8219c5a00 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ Unfortunately bit arithmetics (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>) for numbers are not 64-bit clean, they are explictly forced to be 32-bit because of tangled backward compatibility issues. This limitation is subject to change. Bit arithmetics for bit vector scalars (created by vec()) are -not limited in their width. +not limited in their width, you can use the & | ^ ~ operators on such +scalars. Last but not least: note that due to Perl's habit of always using floating point numbers the quads are still not true integers. |