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| -rw-r--r-- | dist/bignum/lib/bigint.pm | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/overload.pm | 6 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/dist/bignum/lib/bigint.pm b/dist/bignum/lib/bigint.pm index 38aa7da0a4..32c88bf62c 100644 --- a/dist/bignum/lib/bigint.pm +++ b/dist/bignum/lib/bigint.pm @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ package bigint; use 5.006; -$VERSION = '0.33'; +$VERSION = '0.34'; use Exporter; @ISA = qw( Exporter ); @EXPORT_OK = qw( PI e bpi bexp hex oct ); @@ -328,8 +328,8 @@ bigint - Transparent BigInteger support for Perl =head1 DESCRIPTION -All operators (including basic math operations) are overloaded. Integer -constants are created as proper BigInts. +All operators (including basic math operations) except the range operator C<..> +are overloaded. Integer constants are created as proper BigInts. Floating point constants are truncated to integer. All parts and results of expressions are also truncated. @@ -608,6 +608,20 @@ This method only works on Perl v5.9.4 or later. =over 2 +=item ranges + +Perl does not allow overloading of ranges, so you can neither safely use +ranges with bigint endpoints, nor is the iterator variable a bigint. + + use 5.010; + for my $i (12..13) { + for my $j (20..21) { + say $i ** $j; # produces a floating-point number, + # not a big integer + } + } + + =item in_effect() This method only works on Perl v5.9.4 or later. diff --git a/lib/overload.pm b/lib/overload.pm index ce339cd037..51801d643d 100644 --- a/lib/overload.pm +++ b/lib/overload.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package overload; -our $VERSION = '1.21'; +our $VERSION = '1.22'; %ops = ( with_assign => "+ - * / % ** << >> x .", @@ -1675,6 +1675,10 @@ coincides with the current one. Barewords are not covered by overloaded string constants. +=item * + +The range operator C<..> cannot be overloaded. + =back =cut |