Hi Tyson,
tyson andre wrote:
What are your thoughts on making `123_456_000_000_000_000_000_000n` a shorthand
for `gmp_init('123456000000000000000000')` (or a call with equivalent results)
(similar to existing backtick string syntax is a shorthand for `shell_exec()`)
We could do that, but maybe this is a good opportunity to do something
with a wider benefit than GMP by having a generalised solution? GMP is
already special in some ways and it would be a shame to have even more
functionality that privileges it.
For example, what if we allowed string prefixes to have special
user-defined meanings, like:
n"123_456" // expands to: gmp_init('123_456')
u"foo bar" // expands to: new UnicodeString("foo bar") (some class I
made up)
d"123.456" // expands to: new Decimal("123.456") (also an imaginary
class)
This would be a similar idea to JavaScript's template string tags:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals
How you'd define the mappings from prefixes to executed code, I'm not
sure, but we could just make it call a function by that name in the
current namespace… though that would prompt the question “why not just
write `d("123.456")`, which is already possible?” and I don't have a
good answer to that :)
Regards,
Andrea
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