On Monday, November 25, 2002, 7:59:01 PM, you (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> you'll have to write the code so that compiler knows how to handle >> it. While not overly hard, I think its a little much for something >> that should be provided in the core. I think the design team should >> at least account for the fact that someone will want to do this, >> even if it is uncommon. If floating point radii doesn't make its >> way in the core language, I think it should at least be possible >> through a pragma.
> Once again, or a module. We don't want the Perl 6 core to be > minimal. We don't want it to be maximal either; that's CPAN's job. > It seems to me (as Simon has pointed out many a-time) that too much is > going into the core. I guess a lot of this stuff that's being talked > about is going to be in modules anyway... so I'm less worried than > when I started writing this paragraph :). Surely this is when grammars will come in.... if you want the full and total range of possible numeric literals (so you can specify your constants in base 61); then a module could change the grammar to enable these extra forms. I would suggest that the core supports enough to be fully functional (e.g. all possible double values can be specified, and that bit fields can be entered easily), but doesn't need to do everything out of the box. -- Richard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
