XML::XPath::Number(3)

💖 XML::XPath::Number 💖

okay so bestie, this is XML::XPath::Number from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — it's a whole little class that just... holds numbers. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

XML::XPath::Number — Simple numeric values. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this class holds simple numeric values, periodt. it's giving "just a lil number, chillin" 🦋

but ngl, there's some stuff it does not support, and the XPath spec says it should: it doesn't do -0, it doesn't do +/- Infinity, and it doesn't do NaN. 😭 the author is aware, and their whole take is, and I quote-ish, that they're not hurting anyone they don't think. 🙈 iconic honestly.

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💜 API 💜

🌟 new($num)

creates a new XML::XPath::Number object, with the value in $num. 🫶

and yes, it does some rudimentary numeric checking on $num to make sure it actually is a number — vibe check on your input, basically. if you try to sneak a non-number in there, that's not gonna slay. ✨

🌟 value()

also works as overloaded stringification — so when you stringify the object, this is what you get. it returns the numeric value held. 💖

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💀 reminder bestie: no -0, no +/- Infinity, no NaN. the spec wanted them, this class said no. iykyk.

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you ate that 💅 this was XML::XPath::Number(3) from perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-04-21. mwah, go forth and hold ur numbers 👑 🌈 ⭐