Re^2: Incrementing "Infinity" bug (numification, perlnumber, magic increment decrement)

It's a bug or at least a design flow.

Creating a constant which returns a numified inf easily fixes this problem

  DB<100> use constant inf => inf+0
 => 0

  DB<101> $a=inf
 => "inf"

  DB<102> ++$a
 => "inf"

  DB<103> ++$a
 => "inf"
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So why doesn't Perl do this per default?

do we really need to use hacks like 1e9999 to create inf?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)