Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-19 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 06:19:14AM -0800, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > On Thu Dec 11 01:51:23 2008, fperrad wrote: > > The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, > > Integer & String. > > I propose the 3 following new opcodes : > > > - true > > - false > > These can b

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:20:06 Will Coleda wrote: > As I understand it, box is designed to deal /only/ with promoting the > 3 basic register types (SIN) to PMCs of the appropriate HLL type (just > like autoboxing in PCC), not to provide a way to promote literal > values for arbitrary core P

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, François Perrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/11 Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu Dec 11 01:51:23 2008, fperrad wrote: >>> The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, >>> Integer & String. >>> I propose the 3 follo

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread François Perrad
2008/12/11 Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu Dec 11 01:51:23 2008, fperrad wrote: >> The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, >> Integer & String. >> I propose the 3 following new opcodes : > >> - true >> - false > > These can be approximated with: > >

[perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by François PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #61286] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61286 > The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, Integer & Stri