NAME

Number::Base::DWIM - delay parsing of based constants as long as possible.

SYNOPSIS

use Numbers::Base::DWIM

my $x = 011; print $x, "\n"; # prints 9 print "$x\n"; # prints 011

print oct($x) # prints 011

DESCRIPTION

This module will delay parsing of based numeric constants (0b010101, 0655, 0xff) until the last possible moment. This means that if you use the constant as a string, then it will evaluate to the same form that the constant was declared in.

This module was developed after an discussion where some people found the behavior of perl -e 'print oct 011, "\n";' to be confusing. This module works around this by overloading the parsing of binary, hexidecimal and octal numeric constants. It then stores them as a string internally, until either numification or stringification is requested.

BUGS

Due to a bug in overload, constants inside of and eval '...' won't be handled specially.

AUTHOR

Clayton O'Neill <CMO@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2006 by Clayton O'Neill

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.