TorgoX sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.orghttp://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
"Il est beau comme la retractilité des serres des oiseaux rapaces [...] et surtout, comme la rencontre fortuite sur une table de dissection d'une machine à coudre et d'un parapluie !" -- Lautréamont
I thought that, too... (Score:2)
bignum.pm is an interesting way out, if you can afford the speed hit, except that strings used as numbers are not bignums. Sounds unlikely until you realize that everything returned from DBI is a string (at least with DBD::mysql).