Dan Sugalski writes:
: Is a statement like "All X comparisons treated as the
: platform-native X" OK (for X in string, integer, float) in the 'small perl'
: model? (Assuming then that there's no core knowledge of BigInts, BigRats,
: or Complex numbers in small perl)
Depends on what you mean by "small", and "no core knowledge". One
could have a small perl that can still load in all sorts of emulation
routines on the fly as needed. These might well be written in Perl,
for compactness. It just wouldn't be as efficient as using something
more hard-wired. But you'd be able to do anything in Palm Perl that
you can do in Big Perl. Eventually.
On the other hand, one could also strip out all the emulation routines
if you were targeting a microcontroller, say.
Larry
