From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:29:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Be explicit about what ops work with bt vectors. X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=99819a14977e25f4ffd5fe19db3f3e492417275e;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Be explicit about what ops work with bt vectors. (And implicit about which don't.) p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5157 --- diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 8327a68..c8219c5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ Unfortunately bit arithmetics (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>) for numbers are not 64-bit clean, they are explictly forced to be 32-bit because of tangled backward compatibility issues. This limitation is subject to change. Bit arithmetics for bit vector scalars (created by vec()) are -not limited in their width. +not limited in their width, you can use the & | ^ ~ operators on such +scalars. Last but not least: note that due to Perl's habit of always using floating point numbers the quads are still not true integers.