On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 04:08:00PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> i can see things changing very easily. but to me, how perl handles
> overflow is a language semantic as much as implementation. in 5 it is
> well defined (ilya not withstanding) and you are talking bigint stuff
> which scares me. i don
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:31:07AM -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Simon Cozens writes:
> > Why does string C have to screw everything up?
>
> It doesn't. String eval is the escape hatch from a language that
> can't do what you want it to do. As such it's okay for it to be
> slow--consider it
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:52:47PM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >What I'd like to see us avoid is the current situation where trying
> >to examine the value of an SV in the debugger is all but impossible
> >for anybody other than a minor god.
>
> W
