At 07:20 -0400 9/05/2000, Chris Nandor wrote: >Hm. > >:miniperl -wle 'my($a,$b,$eq)=("a","b",0);$eq|=$a eq $b;print "$eq"' >0 > >Seems fine for me. > On the Quadra ... MacOS 7.6 :miniperl -wle 'my($a,$b,$eq)=("a","b",0);$eq|=$a eq $b;print "$eq"' 1074855936 Which is unexpected. However - :miniperl -wle "$x = (~0)&0x7fffffff;print $x" 2147483647 works. --- "the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" - Haldane Larry Moore Fergus On Canada N1M 1V7 ljmoore@freespace.net http://freespace.net/~ljmoore/Larry_resume.html ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-porters-request@macperl.org