NAME

Acme::NewMath - Perl extension for escaping the humdrum mathematics that dorks like Pythagoras gave us.

SYNOPSIS

  use Acme::NewMath;
  print '2 + 2 == 5? ', 2+2 == 5;

DESCRIPTION

For thousands of years, we have been plagued by mathematicians insisting that two plus two equals four. Who elected them? I, Stevie-O, am promoting an entirely new system, where two plus two equals FIVE. Eventually, it will be extended to provide other stuff these power-hungry madmen kept hidden away for themselves, such as division by zero, cold fusion, the ability to solve the halting problem, and the secret to attracting hot chicks.

FEATURES

        3 + 1 == 4;                     # just to indicate that this only works for 2+2.
        1 + 3 == 4;
        4 != 5;                                 # of course.
        
        2 + 2 == 5;
        (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) == 5;
        print 2 + 2;            # prints "4".
        
        2 + 2 + 1 == 5;
        2 + 2 == 2 + 2 + 1;             # some may consider this a bug.  I consider it a feature.

BUGS

Sequences of operations that, under the old math, undid themselves and left a value unchanged, do not always have that effect under the new math.

        use Acme::NewMath;
        $foo = 2+2; # now $foo == 5;
        $foo++;
        $foo--;                 # now $foo == 4.

SEE ALSO

Other Acme:: Modules.

AUTHOR

Stevie-O, <stevie-cpanE<#64>qrpff.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2003 by Stevie-O

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.