>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> The semantics haven't been set down either from a perl or internals
DS> standpoint yet. Perl level is Larry's problem, internals is ours. Luckily
DS> they can be hammered out mostly independently.
i can see things changing very easily. but to me, how perl handles
overflow is a language semantic as much as implementation. in 5 it is
well defined (ilya not withstanding) and you are talking bigint stuff
which scares me. i don't think that should be the default in any case. i
would want my perl numbers to be float or ints and bring in bigint as
you said by pragma or attribute.
uri
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