On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:29:43AM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> My understanding is that symbols with double underscore or underscore
> followed by an uppercase letter are reserved, while _something
> symbols are ok if they are not exported and that is actually
> what we are doing. I prefer _perl
At 01:01 AM 3/10/2001 +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote:
>On 03/05/01 Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > =item Arbitrary precision integers
> >
> > Big integers, or bigints, are arbitrary-length integer numbers. The
> > only limit to the number of digits in a bigint is the lesser of the
> > amount of memory availabl
On 03/05/01 Dan Sugalski wrote:
> =item Arbitrary precision integers
>
> Big integers, or bigints, are arbitrary-length integer numbers. The
> only limit to the number of digits in a bigint is the lesser of the
> amount of memory available or the maximum value that can be
> represented by a C. Th
> > Most won't, honestly. At a guess, 90% of perl's current userbase doesn't
> > care about Unicode for any reason other than XML,
The next version of Gtk+ will use utf8. Qt use unicode already. Tk
will probably move in the same direction if it doesn't do it already.
So most user interface applic
On 03/03/01 Damien Neil wrote:
> > All the function names shall begin with the C prefix. The only exception
> > is function names that may be used only in the perl core: these names shall
> > begin with the C<_perl_> prefix. This will make it possible to export only
> > the perl_* functions from t
This is probably akin to turning a supertanker around 180 degrees, but
I'll try anyway.
I've never liked Perl's use of the terminology 'num' to mean a floating-point
value. Is there any chance in Perl 6 of using something else, eg 'float'
or 'real'?
Its just that a 'number' doesnt have any conno
As I see it, there will be 3 types of access to bigint/nums.
1) there is the internal implementation of the PMC types associated
with them. This is where all the messy code gets hidden (assembler
optimations, register length-specific code etc).
2) PDD 2 requires that all PMC types return their i
