Bug#581259: perl-doc: Math::BigInt documentation example wrong for from_bin()

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed May 12 03:36:48 UTC 2010


Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.10.1-12
Severity: minor

currently, the docs for Math::BigInt contain this example:

   from_bin()
               $x = Math::BigInt->from_oct("0x10011"); # input is binary

It should probably be:

   from_bin()
               $x = Math::BigInt->from_bin("0x10011"); # input is binary

Regards,

        --dkg

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages perl-doc depends on:
ii  perl                          5.10.1-12  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

perl-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages perl-doc suggests:
ii  groff                         1.20.1-9   GNU troff text-formatting system
ii  konqueror [man-browser]       4:4.3.4-1  KDE 4's advanced file manager, web
ii  man-db [man-browser]          2.5.7-3    on-line manual pager

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