At 04:08 PM 12/27/00 -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DS> The semantics haven't been set down either from a perl or internals
> DS> standpoint yet. Perl level is Larry's problem, internals is ours.
> Luckily
> DS> they can be hammered out mostly independently.
>
>i can see things changing very easily. but to me, how perl handles
>overflow is a language semantic as much as implementation. in 5 it is
>well defined (ilya not withstanding) and you are talking bigint stuff
>which scares me. i don't think that should be the default in any case. i
>would want my perl numbers to be float or ints and bring in bigint as
>you said by pragma or attribute.
Well, the issue ultimately isn't "will we convert", because we will. (We
have to, to keep perl 5 compliance at least) And since it's "to what shall
we convert", we can leave that question for later, and allow generally for
up and downconversions in the API spec.
Dan
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