Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:38:08PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:26:06PM +0100, Angel Faus wrote:
For example, the integer 30 can be written in hexadecimal base in two
equivalent ways:
my $x = 16:1D
my $x = 16:1.14
These two representations are incompatible, so writing something like
C<16:D.13> will generate a compile-time error.
So, can we specify floats in other bases?
Why would you want to?
-Scott
Well, why would you want a float in any radix?
To represent a fractional part of a whole digit in
that radix, of course. If different radii are going
to be supported, I think its best to at least
support them fully. For instance, what would
happen if you did this without floating point
support for different radii?
my $x = 16: 6;
my $y = 16: C;
my $z = $x/$y;
# $z should equal 6/C, aka 16: 0.8
