Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 12:57:19AM -0500, Jeff G wrote:
> > Along with testing in t/op/pmc.t
> 
> Wait! This is all bogus. Not only do we need overflow checking, but
> we also need to deal with the contingency that in, say,
> 
>     add P1, P2, P3
> 
> the "value" PMC may not be an integer, and hence we have to promote
> everything.

Yes we do, and I agree, but I wasn't able to figure out how to load in
the PerlNum class, which (obviously) is required in order to have
something to promote to, so I stuck to testing and fixing integer
operations. I'll see about numeric/string operations some time this
week.

> I've left the code in, updated to fit Angel's preprocessor, but this
> is something we need to remember.
> 
> --
> "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot
> of different places, just write a Unix operating system."
> (By Linus Torvalds)

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