Re: Feeding potatoes to dead horses

2001-07-12 Thread Dave Storrs
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > We could assume untyped variables are untyped, but I'd rather they're > considered mistakes. Again, the purpose here is to catch mistakes. I > don't know if this will wind up being more or less annoying, we'll > have to play with it a little. F

op code bof at tpc

2001-07-12 Thread Uri Guttman
i ran into dan the other day (he was getting a free lunch from damian's class :-) and i proposed this bof to him and he said go for it. the bof subject is the design of the op codes, dispatch loop and the api of op routines. this would also cover the VM architecture (registers), data (PMC), and e

Re: precision belongs in bigfloats, nowhere else.

2001-07-12 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:55 PM 7/12/2001 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >John Porter wrote: > > > > David L. Nicol wrote: > > > First off, I'm going to pound on one of my deceased horses a bit: > > > > I'll add one obligatory thwack with my own barbed flog, David. Hear hear. > > > > > > my Num$dec = 4.0; >