Acme::Roman - Do maths like Romans did

    use Acme::Roman;

    print I + II; # III, of course!

The Roman Empire ruled over a large part of the ocidental world for a long time, probably too long for the conquested people.

They were finally won and there are some who say it was because they could not do mathematics. Such liars!

This module redeems Perl with the ungratefully forgotten Roman numbers, which now can find their glory again.

That module was inspired by

    Ruby Quiz - Roman Numerals (#22)
    http://rubyquiz.com/quiz22.html

See the hightlighted solution at the Quiz Summary in the same page.

Take a look at eg/roman.pl in this distribution for an amusing example.

Acme::Roman does not like numbers greater than 3999. Why would you like such big numbers?

Only knows how to do addition, subtraction and multiplication. What else do you think that Romans did with such a lovely numeric system?

Ranges (like I..X) don't work :(

The actual implementation does a bit of brute force when defining empty prototypes so that barewords are resolved into subroutine calls. I don't know if it can be fixed.

If you find a bug, tell Julio Caesar from a respectful and safe distance. (He's always looking for entertainment at the circus. And lions are ever hungry.) If you prefer, you might file a report at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Acme-Roman or via e-mail at bug-Acme-Roman@rt.cpan.org. (Ok, CPAN RT now likes me again.)

Adriano R. Ferreira <ferreira@cpan.org>

Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 Adriano R. Ferreira

The Acme::Roman module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.