> How is a tinyurl safer than giving the explicit URL?
I don't know? Who said this?
BTW: I'm the one who first raised the alarm in the CB...
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How is a tinyurl safer than giving the explicit URL? At least with an explicit URL you immediately have a provenance. A tinyurl link could go anywhere.
While the code fiddling issues are co...
I feel like 'int' ought to have a stronger contract of doing what's written on the label. If it can't convert to an int, it ought to return undef or 0, not just ignore the attempt...
Found a new idiom :-)
my $y= do { use integer; $x+0 };
I agree it would be nice if int() did that already....
Unfortunately that just isn't the way perl defines things. Perl has no distinction between float/int - not even when int() function is used. Perl scalars essentially have 3 basic flavours:...
Yeah that's sort of what I'm going for. I feel like 'int' ought to have a stronger contract of doing what's written on the label. If it can't convert to an int, it ought to return undef or 0, not ju...