Bug#1915: Perl doesn't like the number 0

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Peter Tobias spoke unto the world:
> >Package: perl
> >Version: 5.002-1 (a.out)
> >The following program prints "0.e-1" instead of "0".
> >for ($j = 0; $j <= 7; $j++) {
> >      print "$j\n";
> >}
>
> I've not been able to duplicate this anywhere using a.out under linux or
> any other machines that I have access to.

Strange, I get the same results on every linux system where I installed
the perl-5.002-1.deb.aout package.


Peter

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