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mwah
<i>if i am handling non-floating-point values, it's a bit more elegant ... to use int()</i>
<p> .. if it's worth the typed characters at all ;-)</p>
<p>As you said before, Perl will convert the string into a number
internally if the string isn't already converted (IV-Flag not set)
and if the string is used in a numerical context.</p>
<p>Of course, when using Perl-Guts (XS), [http://www.sdsc.edu/~moreland/courses/IntroPerl/docs/manual/pod/perlguts.html#Double_Typed_SVs|you have to worry].</p>
<p>regards</p>
<p>mwa</p>
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