On 9/27/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote: I don't think he's saying that was inside Perl, necessarily... However, yes, classic error. "Test for overflow by... doing the operation, at specified precision, and see if the resulting value is greater than the overflow max for that precision." Yeah. "If the preceding operation already failed... no, wait. Er. Hey, we can use Floating Point..." No. -- -george william herbert george.herbert(a)gmail.com

2007/9/28, Artur Bergman <sky(a)crucially.net>et>: The following makes it pretty clear that this is (was?) from PHP, yes: "This is bogosity as it belongs on DailyWTF, not into one of the most widely deployed codebases on the internet that is backed by several of the biggest corporations in IT. Please, please, someone tell me how PHP got to be as big as it is?" -- schnee