Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'm going to formally establish a basic set of > parrot PMC classes. We're going to now have: > > Undef - The undefined value. Looks like 0, 0.0, false, or the empty > string, depending on how you peer at it. Can transform into any other > type. Assignment of an boolean, integer, float, bignum, or string turns > it into a PMC of type Boolean, Integer, Float, BigNum, or String. > > Boolean - Basic true/false PMC > > Integer - Basic integer. > > Float - Basic floating point. > > BigNum - Basic extended-precision number > > String - Basic string > > The Boolean, Integer, Float, BigNum, and String types (and yes, BigNum > and String don't exist. Yet) maintain their types and autoconvert > incoming data, Undef morphs itself to the destination type and goes from > there.
Hi,
how about having complex numbers as another basic PMC?
At least QCL, http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~oemer/qcl.html, C99 and PDL, http://pdl.perl.org/, have them as a basic type.
CU, Bernhard
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