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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Artitmetic functions
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Date: 26 Feb 91 02:54:45 GMT
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In <1991Feb20.113935.14427@pronto.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes:
>I'd like to suggest adding the following aritmetic functions to perl.
>
>   min(LIST)	- numerically lowest of LIST
>   max(LIST)	- numerically highest of LIST
>   round(EXPR[,precision])
>		- EXPR rounded to precision decimal
>		  places (default integer precision)
>   ceil(EXPR)	- ceiling value of EXPR
>   floor(EXPR)	- floor value of EXPR (identical to 'int')
>
>Reasonable?

Ahem. Now if Larry would allow functions to follow the same rules
as variable names, we could have:

		&<	min
		&>	max
		&0	round (:-)
		&_	floor
		&^	ceiling
		&!	factorial

And of course, now that we have control character variables:

		&^d	FILEHANDLE can replace close
		&^c	send interrupt to process
		&^z	replaces sleep

Like I said, how hard could it possibly be to parse '&& && &&' :-)

All of your suggestions can be implemented trivially by any user,
so there is really no reason for Larry to do it.
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