Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > BTW, is 256#2_3_4:255 legal? I vote no. Correct: an underline may exist only between digits; technically, the 2,3 and 4 aren't digits; the two digits in the above are 234 and 255.
> I was under the impression that Perl6 would support bigints natively > such that when it ran across numbers like 777_666_555_444_333_222_111, > it would automatically promote them to bigints (unless you told it > otherwise) Correct, there will be no bigint/bignum types: last we talked about it, C<Int> and C<Num> (promoted/obj form of C<int> and C<num>) would automatically represent themselves internally when necessary, so you won't ever need to specify bigint/bignum explicitly. Great doc, Angel! I'll see how far I actually get in combining the docs into a larger form, like I said I was going to this holiday... turns out the weather here in Mendecino County is much less crappy than we had originally expected. :-) MikeL
