Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Jeffrey Friedl wrote: >> >> Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> |> Awwkay. How about for a compromise I dilute it to a lexical >> |> warning (so that you can turn it off If You Know What You Are >> |> Doing)? >> >> I think it's still an outstanding issue as to the range of numbers >> allowed in the "string of unsigned numbers". >> >> Are the numbers limited to the range of possible Unicode codepoints? >> or to the system "int"? or to whatever UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC can encode >> (0x00000000 through 0x7FFFFFFF)? > >IIRC, bleadperl's pack "U" can encode larger numbers than 2**31-1.
On ASCII-oid machines yes, but UTF-EBCDIC is limited to 0x7FFFFFFF -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
