Simon said:
> > I see. ?But what's the rational to have Bigints / Bigfloat be native
types
> > instead of PMCs?
>
> They're useful and predictable. And also, you may want to automatically
> promote integers to bigints; you probably don't want to automatically
> promote integers to complex types.
begin quote from Angel Faus:
> I see. ?But what's the rational to have Bigints / Bigfloat be native types
> instead of PMCs?
They're useful and predictable. And also, you may want to automatically
promote integers to bigints; you probably don't want to automatically
promote integers to complex ty
>
> These methods are provided so that we can play with "native" types in our
> bytecode then send them to our pmc, as otherwise every constant in our
> code would have to be a PMC, which is a little excessive.
>
> Things like a complex number will be represented by either a PMC class
> (very lik
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Angel Faus wrote:
> I. Missing methods in parrot:
>
> The are many vtable methods in python not present in parrot. Some of the
> ones I would expect to really be needed are:
>
>* divmod# integer division
>* power
>* absolute
>* invert
>* compare
Yes, w
Hi all-
I have been checking the Python source code (something I am sure all of you
already have done :-) and some differences on the design surprised me so
much that I decided to come and make some questions.
I guess that most of you know well the python source code, so please
apologize the len
