Re: Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentativelist of vtable functions]

2000-10-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:48 PM 10/25/00 -0400, Ken Fox wrote: >If Larry does what I'm hoping, we'll be able to extend the lexer to >recognize new number formats and not have to kludge things together with >strings. Am I reading too much into the Atlanta talk or is that your >take on it too? I think you're likely ri

Re: Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentativelist of vtable functions]

2000-10-25 Thread Ken Fox
Dan Sugalski wrote: > Numeric constants will probably fall into two classes--those perl's parser > knows about and can convert to, and those it doesn't and just treats as > strings. I'm really excited to see what magic Larry is going to cook up for extending the lexer and parser. His talk made it