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in reply to Incrementing "Infinity" bug

0:52 >perl -E "$a = inf; print ++$a, qq[\n];" ing 0:52 >perl -E "$a = inf + 0; print ++$a, qq[\n];" 1.#INF 0:52 >perl -Mbigint -E "$a = inf; print ++$a, qq[\n];" inf 0:52 >perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 0 (v5.16.0) built for MSWin32-x +86-multi-thread-64int (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Hope that helps,

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