[perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-10-15 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed Sep 24 22:31:36 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:37:09 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > +1 in favor of applying this patch (and updating any tests to match) -- > > this will _really_ improve things for PCT and Rakudo. Thanks! > > Applied as r31402. > > -- c

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-24 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:37:09 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > +1 in favor of applying this patch (and updating any tests to match) -- > this will _really_ improve things for PCT and Rakudo. Thanks! Applied as r31402. -- c

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:47:15PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:13:30 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: > > When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we > > often need to convert a Float value into an equivalent representation > > for PIR. Unfortuna

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-23 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:13:30 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: > When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we > often need to convert a Float value into an equivalent representation > for PIR. Unfortunately, all of the mechanisms I've looked at for > doing this lose a

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #59006] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?i

[perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59006] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59006 > When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we often need to conve