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Is this documented anywhere?Yes, in sv.c in the perl source ("use the source, luke" ;-)
Line 1680 ff:
/* =for apidoc looks_like_number Test if the content of an SV looks like a number (or is a number). C<Inf> and C<Infinity> are treated as numbers (so will not issue a non-numeric warning), even if your atof() doesn't grok them. =cut */
and so - suprise! - perlapi tells the same.
Read through sv.c to see what happens. The perl5 spec is coherent with its implementation ;-)
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