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From: sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Arithmetic functions
Message-ID: <11579@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 25 Feb 91 17:39:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.113935.14427@pronto.mh.nl> <2069019@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com>
Reply-To: sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins)
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In article <1991Feb23.001155.3630@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>...I remember once wanting an abs function, but I contented myself with:
>
>    sub abs { ($_[0] < 0) ? -$_[0] : $_[0]; } 
>

I guess I won't post my article asking for abs(EXPR) after all.  What is it
with this newsgroup, that all my questions get answered before I manage to
ask them?  :-)

Sharon Hopkins
sharon@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov