Re: Math::BigRat Dump Fails on Eval

[SuicideJunkie]

Please fix your post, it is breaking the formatting.

As to your problem, consider the following code:

use Math::BigRat;
my $num = Math::BigRat->new(157156424579004107729662594024339596952518
+6964287593983211702071746502379495623702577);
my $num2 = Math::BigRat->new('1571564245790041077296625940243395969525
+186964287593983211702071746502379495623702577');
print "Numeric: $num\n";
print "Stringy: $num2\n";

c:\>perl test.pl
Numeric: 1571564245790040000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+000000000000000000000000
Stringy: 1571564245790041077296625940243395969525186964287593983211702
+071746502379495623702577
c:\>_

In the first case, you're trying to make a constant number which has to be passed in to bigrat as a float. In the second case, bigrat gets all the digits nicely.

[jabowery]

So I guess what you're saying is I need to fix the interface between Data::Dump and Math::BigRat -- because it is in that interface that the quotes are being left out.

UPDATE: There was a buggy filter callback in my call to dumpf:

sub{my ($ctx,$self)=@_;$ctx->object_isa('Math::BigRat')?{dump=>"Math::BigRat->new($self)"}

As for the formatting of the original post, you didn't specify what was 'broken' about the formatting but I did notice that there was no download link, and I put some white space into the source (CR before and after the code tags) to fix that.

If it is the lack of wrapping you are referring to, the only help I found was in the "Writeup Formatting Tips" where they discuss only "Display Settings", which places the burden on the reader to specify auto-wrapping.