Re: [MacPerl] Signed Integers getting returned... Heck

[John-Michael Keyes <jk@infohiway.com>]

Thanks for the quick reply. Interesting fortrick. I'll mess with it and see
if it does the tran/trick.

Thanks again. If I can make it work I'll let you know. Otherwise you might
get another headscratching help post.

JMK
>>I should probably post this one to the perl group too, but macperl users
>>appear to be more resourceful and clever... 'Nuf hype.
>
>I cannot speak for M.U.N. on this, but I believe he indicated that
>Perl5.004 would have this fixed.
>
>The problem has bitten me in the management of dates, since when dates are
>converted to integers, larger deltas need to be unsigned. I got around the
>problem temporarily by mulitiplying one item by 1.0 (to force the
>conversion - old FORTRANers trick), and adding. Maybe that will help.
>
>Bob Dalgleish   bob.dalgleish@sk.sympatico.ca
>Web Page        http://www.sasknet.com/~dalgl/


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