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in reply to Re^3: Numification of strings
in thread Numification of strings

And what does this disagree with? I never said the integer and string values of a scalar variable have to be in any way related.

Jenda
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Re^5: Numification of strings
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 02, 2010 at 14:12 UTC
    Well take it as clarification that there are no "string variables" but "scalar variables" with different slots.

    Perl is so magic that, easy answers are not always true...

    Cheers Rolf