Resource Management and Oracle® Solaris Zones Developer's Guide

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Perl Double-Typed Scalars

The modules described in this document make extensive use of the Perl double-typed scalar facility. The double-typed scalar facility allows a scalar value to behave either as an integer or as a string, depending upon the context. This behavior is the same as exhibited by the $! Perl variable (errno). The double-typed scalar facility avoids the need to map from an integer value into the corresponding string in order to display a value. The following example illustrates the use of double-typed scalars.

# Assume $obj is a Sun::Solaris::Item
my $type = $obj->type();

# prints out "2 EO_ITEM"
printf("%d %s\n", $type, $type);

# Behaves as an integer, $i == 2
my $i = 0 + $type;

# Behaves as a string, $s = "abc EO_ITEM xyx"
my $s = "abc $type xyz";