On Monday 30 August 2010 at 15:45, Paul C wrote: > I have rewritten the Integer 'neg' and 'absolute' operators so they promote > the minimum integer to a BigInt when negating it. This is consistent with > 'add', 'subtract', etc., all of which promote to BigInt. > I consider the current behavior to be a bug, so that no deprecation is > required. What do you think?
Agreed. > As an example of a PMC that inherits from Integer and might rely on the > current behavior, I give you Boolean. It inherits 'neg' and relies on the > fact that it does not promote to implement the following bizarre behavior: > > -(Boolean true) => true > -(Boolean false) => false > > I will simply implement 'neg' in Boolean to preserve this whackiness. While you're at it, can you study how removing Boolean's inheritance from Integer might improve the code? -- c _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
