NAME Number::Base::DWIM - delay parsing of based constants as long as possible. SYNOPSIS use Numbers::Base::DWIM my $x = 011; print $x, "\n"; # prints 9 print "$x\n"; # prints 011 print oct($x) # prints 011 DESCRIPTION This module will delay parsing of based numeric constants (0b010101, 0655, 0xff) until the last possible moment. This means that if you use the constant as a string, then it will evaluate to the same form that the constant was declared in. This module was developed after an discussion where some people found the behavior of "perl -e 'print oct 011, "\n";'" to be confusing. This module works around this by overloading the parsing of binary, hexidecimal and octal numeric constants. It then stores them in a "dualvar", as provided by Scalar::Util. NOTES Originally this was implemented as a class, and the overload function returned an object with numification and stringification methods. Thanks to Brian D. Foy for suggesting that it use "dualvar" instead. BUGS Due to a bug in overload, constants inside of and "eval '...'" won't be handled specially. AUTHOR Clayton O'Neill COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2006 by Clayton O'Neill This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.