To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's… - Larry Wall

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To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.

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Larry Arnold Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, best known as the creator of the Perl programming language.

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<code>if (instr(buf,sys_errlist[errno])) /* you don't see this */</code>

On the plus side, it's a lot easier in general to find /usr/include than cpp.

There are many times when you want it to ignore the rest of the string just like atof() does. Oddly enough, Perl calls atof(). How convenient.

To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. - Larry Wall

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