Re: RFC 209 (v1) Fuller integer support in Perl.

[Nathan Wiger]

> Programs will specify arithmetic processing in typical Perl fashion:
> 
>   use integer qw(32bit unsigned);
>   use integer qw(64bit);
> 
> Perl semantics will reflect this value until the end of current block.

I wonder if this wouldn't be better handled on an item-by-item basis
like other languages that use types?

   my int $x : 64bit = some_big_val();
   my int $y : 32bit, unsigned = 5;
   my float $z;

-Nate