Bob

This is your friendly reminder that the SanDiego.pm quarterly meeting will be this Tuesday, January 12th, starting at 7 PM PST. As has been the case for the last several meetings, we'll be meeting again on Zoom (details below).

Topics for the meeting include Perl (of course), COVID-19, CentOS, and anything else that people would like to talk about.

This is a quick reminder that the quarterly San Diego Perl Mongers meeting will be occurring on Tuesday evening, starting at our normal time of 7 PM PDT.  As has been for the last several meetings, we’re going to meet online, as in-person meetings are discouraged, and online meetings seem to be a bit more popular.

The SanDiego.pm Quarterly Meeting is tonight, 7 PM PDT.

Because of the pesky disease that's been spreading, we'll be gathering online. The agenda for tonight is: Normal conversation and seeing how everyone is doing; if there are any questions that need to be answered, we'll do that; followed by jumping into our presentations. We have at least three, though if anybody would like to step up and add another to the mix, please let me know.

Meeting ID: 896 3919 9931 Link to the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89639199931

I'm not positive about this, but I'm not sure that things are behaving as I would expect. What would you expect the following lines to output?

perl -E 'say "x"; say -"x"; say -"-x"; say -"+x";'

For me, lines 1 and 2 make sense. Lines 3 and 4 are different than I would expect, but I'm not sure that they are really wrong. Does somebody want to explain what is really happening, and why it is that way?

What do you think the following lines print?

use feature 'say';
sub fmt { sprintf( @_[0, 1] ) }
my $num = 1_234_567_890.12_345_678_9;
say sprintf( '%.6f', $num );
say fmt( '%.6f', $num );

I think the two say lines should both print out the same value, 1234567890.123457. The first line behaves as expected, but the second does not. Does anybody have any idea on why?

Playing around with the code, I’ve figured out how to fix the issue, but I’m curious as to thoughts and explanations from the community.