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Id: 22835
Status: resolved
Worked: 10 min
Priority: 0/
Queue: bignum
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Owner: TELS [...] cpan.org
Requestors: cbparker [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.17
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Sun Nov 05 19:53:47 2006 cbparker [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: Unable to pass multiple options on loading
Using bignum-0.17 and perl-5.8.4 on Debian, I am not able to pass multiple options to bignum when loading it via use. In the docs it says you can do things like "-Mbignum,a,5" or "use bignum a => 5;", however this does not work when you need to pass multiple variables (example, I want to set math library to GMP, accuracy to 100, precision to -100). I cannot find a sane way to specify more options either.
  Sat Jan 27 07:08:47 2007 TELS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sun Nov 05 19:53:47 2006, bparker wrote: Show quoted text
> Using bignum-0.17 and perl-5.8.4 on Debian, I am not able to pass > multiple options to bignum when loading it via use. > > In the docs it says you can do things like "-Mbignum,a,5" or "use bignum > a => 5;", however this does not work when you need to pass multiple > variables (example, I want to set math library to GMP, accuracy to 100, > precision to -100). I cannot find a sane way to specify more options
either. Setting both accuracy and precision at the same time is an error - this will never work :) Otherwise, you can just chain the options like so: perl -Mbignum=a,100,l,GMP -le 'print 2 ** 0.5' The only thing not working is passing more than one library to bignum this way, since the "l" parameter only looks at the next argument. Best wishes, Tels
  Sat Jan 27 07:08:49 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Jan 27 07:09:07 2007 TELS [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sat Jan 27 07:09:33 2007 TELS [...] cpan.org - TimeWorked changed from (no value) to '10'
  Sat Jan 27 07:11:33 2007 TELS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I improved the documentation of bignum et. al., and added more examples. The only thing left is specifying more than one library and I do not see how I can this implement at the moment. So I am marking this bugreport as solved. If you do have more problems, do not hesitate to either reopen this bug by replying to this message, or open a new one. Thank you for you report! Best wishes, Tels
  Sat Jan 27 07:11:39 2007 TELS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'