Re: [FWP] JAPH made up entirely of double-chars?

[John Porter <jdporter@min.net>]

alex avriette wrote:
> Curiously, I get a different number. But no matter what I assign it I get
> that same number. So I dont think it is "converting" the number to a
> scalar per se.

No, it's converting a scalar (any scalar) to a number, just
as Sean said.  In these tests, it's numericizing a ref, via
the same mechanism that allows refs to be compared using ==
(I suppose).  So the value of the number depends on the 
value of the ref.

  $= = \$x; print "$=\n";
  $= = \$y; print "$=\n";
  $= = \$a; print "$=\n";
  $= = \$b; print "$=\n";
  135104960
  135119868
  135120012
  135120072

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