> > 3. We decree that all string to numeric conversions should return
> > a particular numeric type (eg NV), and that all numeric to string
> > conversions should similary convert to a fixed string type (eg utf8).
> > (Although I'm not sure that really helps.)
>
> Feels like a bad plan, as it can be that no single intrinsic type
> (ie one native to the compiler of the implementation language) is
struct {
IV whatitis;
union {
IV iv;
UV uv;
NV nv;
};
}
:-)
Yeah, doesn't help for complex numbers, quaternions, octonions, or
bignums...
> a superset of all the others
> (eg a platform with 64 bit integers, and the longest floating point type
> being 64 bit)
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