Re: PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:19 AM 12/26/2001 -0800, Boris Tschirschwitz wrote: >Hi. >When I am reading about Perl internal datatypes I wonder if they are going >to be Parrot internal types, especially the BIGINTs and BIGNUMs. > >Will I be able to do someting like > mov I3,45e3 >or are the BIGs going to be imple

Re: PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
> Will I be able to do someting like > mov I3,45e3 > or are the BIGs going to be implemented as PMCs? Ok, a look at he actual interpreter shows that this is possible, but it should really be set I3,45e3 Then I really believe that the vector thing would be worthwhile. Is there an ar

PDD4 and BIGNUM/s

2001-12-26 Thread Boris Tschirschwitz
Hi. When I am reading about Perl internal datatypes I wonder if they are going to be Parrot internal types, especially the BIGINTs and BIGNUMs. Will I be able to do someting like mov I3,45e3 or are the BIGs going to be implemented as PMCs? I ask because I have the following idea: I think