On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:47:38PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the > : docs say "Perl 6 intrinsically supports big integers and rationals > : through its system of type declarations. Int automatically > : supports promotion to arbitrary precision" but it looks like it's > : doing the same thing as Perl 5. > > The status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6 is fine. It's rakudo that > doesn't do so well. :)
Correct. I suspect that eventually the Rakudo developers will have to develop a custom set of PMCs for Perl 6 behaviors rather than relying on the Parrot ones. In the more general sense, it's sometimes useful to remember that Parrot is a virtual machine that often takes a Perl 5 approach to solving problems -- I suspect because in many cases the "Perl 6" approach wasn't necessarily well defined at the time. It's going to take Rakudo a little time to layer or rebuild the correct semantics for its core object types, so in the meantime we see bits of Parrot peeking out through the interfaces. Pm
