On Mar 12, 2006, at 2:55, Joshua Isom wrote:
If the compiler goes through all the constants at compile time to find
identical ones, why not use ".const float number = 0.0"?
That covers only a small part of the problem. 'Const's are still
mutable, they still morph, and PMCs with the same value don't have the
same .id. While Parrot PMCs pretend to be values too, they are much
more like vars.
irb(main):002:0> 2.id
=> 5
irb(main):003:0> (1+1).id
=> 5
$ cat c.pir
.sub main :main
.const .Integer i = "42"
print i
print "\n"
inc i
print i
print "\n"
i = 3.14
print i
print "\n"
.end
$ ./parrot c.pir
42
43
3.14
leo
