Date: 20 Sep 2001 17:28:55 GMT
From: anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
Subject: Re: Limiting floating point decimal places.
Message-Id: <9od90n$5qv$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>

According to Mark Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>:
> 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.

So do I.

> I'd really like to see an example of a program that uses it successfully.

I would rather not see one, because that would mean we can't re-use
$# for the more useful loop index in for-loops.  Then again, I don't
think we are going to see this kind of change before Perl 6 anymore.

Anno