Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 18:18:04 GMT
From: mjd@plover.com (Mark Jason Dominus)
Subject: Re: Limiting floating point decimal places.
Message-Id: <3ba8e15c.4a55$2ac@news.op.net>

In article <x766ahdrbj.fsf@home.sysarch.com>,
Uri Guttman  <uri@sysarch.com> wrote:
>  CF> Also look at $OFMT and $# in the perlvar manual page.
>
>$# is deprecated and not useful. i think it is also broken in some ways.

It's extremely broken.  Try this:

	$s = 1.23456789;
	$# = '%.0f';
	print $s, "\t$s\n";

I doubt anyone has ever successfully used $# for anything.
I'd really like to see an example of a program that uses it successfully.

-- 
@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print