Acme::Numbers - a fluent numeric interface
use Acme::Numbers;
print one."\n"; # prints 1
print two.hundred."\n"; # prints 200
print forty.two."\n"; # prints 42
print six.hundred.and.sixty.six."\n"; # prints 666
print one.million."\n"; # prints 1000000
print three.point.one.four."\n"; # prints 3.14
print one.point.zero.two."\n"; # prints 1.02
print zero.point.zero.five."\n"; # prints 0.05
print four.pounds."\n"; # prints "4.00"
print four.pounds.five."\n"; # prints "4.05"
print four.pounds.fifty."\n"; # prints "4.50"
print four.pounds.fifty.five."\n"; # prints "4.55"
print fifty.pence."\n"; # prints "0.50"
print fifty.five.pence."\n"; # prints "0.55"
print four.pounds.fifty.pence."\n"; # prints "4.50"
print four.pounds.and.fifty.p."\n"; # prints "4.50"
print fifty.cents."\n"; # prints "0.50"
print fifty.five.cents."\n"; # prints "0.55"
print four.dollars.fifty.cents."\n"; # prints "4.55"
Inspired by this post
http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/12/the_cardinality_of_a_fluent_in.php
and a burning curiosity. At leats, I hope the burning was curiosity.
By default billion is 10**12 because, dammit, that's right.
If you want it to be an American billion then do
use Acme::Numbers billion => 10**9;
Setting this automatically changes all the larger numbers (trillion, quadrillion, etc) to match.
You should never really use these methods on the class directly.
All numbers handled by Lingua::EN::Words2Nums are handled by this module.
In addition ...
operator can be 'num', 'and' or 'point'
The name of this object (i.e the method that was originally called).
The current numeric value
Handle putting these two objects together
Concatenate two things.
