On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:18:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Good question. The size of the bignum, if it's been declared to have a maximum size, or the maximum size that it's been, though that doesn't feel particularly right.
That feels particularly bad if language implementations happen to re-use temporary PMCs. (As perl re-uses temporary SVs in a subroutine's pad) As what you get may depend on a previous caller's values.
I can't really see how you can rotate a bignum that doesn't have a width already associated with it.
You and Felix are right -- I missed the right answer. We'll treat rotates of bignums as shifts.
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