Dan~ > I'm thinking now that multiplication of integers should upgrade to a > float (which is large enough to hold the result with no loss of > precision), division of integers should return a bignum (or a > bigrat), and all float operations should produce floats. The > destination PMC type can downconvert if it wants, so: > > Pint = Pint / Pint
Are you sure that you mean PInt * Pint -> Pfloat or do you mean to say PInt * Pint -> Pbigint Maybe I had been debugging too long and am just brainfried. But if you could summarize your current thinking in the form bigint / bigint -> bigrat int / int -> float It would facilitate my following your exact plans. Thanks, Matt -- "Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory." -???
