Author: lwall
Date: 2009-06-02 21:28:12 +0200 (Tue, 02 Jun 2009)
New Revision: 26990
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
[S02] require failure when digits exceed radix
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
===================================================================
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2009-06-02 19:12:39 UTC (rev 26989)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod 2009-06-02 19:28:12 UTC (rev 26990)
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
Maintainer: Larry Wall <la...@wall.org>
Date: 10 Aug 2004
- Last Modified: 23 May 2009
- Version: 169
+ Last Modified: 2 Jun 2009
+ Version: 170
This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale
lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain
@@ -2436,6 +2436,10 @@
:60[12,34,56] # 12 * 3600 + 34 * 60 + 56
:100[3,'.',14,16] # pi
+All numbers representing digits must be less than the radix, or an
+error will result (at compile time if constant-folding can catch it,
+or at run time otherwise).
+
Any radix may include a fractional part. A dot is never ambiguous
because you have to tell it where the number ends:
