NAME
Number::Base::DWIM - delay parsing of based constants as long as possible.
SYNOPSIS
use Numbers::Base::DWIM
my $x = 011;
print $x, "\n"; # prints 9
print "$x\n"; # prints 011
print oct($x) # prints 011DESCRIPTION
This module will delay parsing of based numeric constants (0b010101, 0655, 0xff) until the last possible moment. This means that if you use the constant as a string, then it will evaluate to the same form that the constant was declared in.
This module was developed after an discussion where some people found the behavior of perl -e 'print oct 011, "\n";' to be confusing. This module works around this by overloading the parsing of binary, hexidecimal and octal numeric constants. It then stores them in a dualvar, as provided by Scalar::Util.
NOTES
Originally this was implemented as a class, and the overload function returned an object with numification and stringification methods. Thanks to Brian D. Foy for suggesting that it use dualvar instead.
BUGS
Due to a bug in overload, constants inside of and eval '...' won't be handled specially.
AUTHOR
Clayton O'Neill <CMO@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006 by Clayton O'Neill
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.