Re: bignum incompatible with looks_like_number() ???

In article <4683d775$0$13997$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Here's what I found out after digging into this issue:
1. bignum is intended to be fully compatible with looks_like_number()

Where did you find that ?

Well, I started by reading this carefully:
http://perldoc.perl.org/bignum.html

Then I found a bunch of stuff like this:
http://rt.perl.org/rt3//Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27606

Is there really any question as to the intent here?

CB

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