Mark Biggar wrote:
Handling promotion (and demotion) between single and multi-precision
integers is fairly easy. And once you have that doing it for rationals
is basically free. Likewise promoting an Integer up to rational is
trivial and vice versa. But promotion (or demotion) between IEEE flo
Handling promotion (and demotion) between single and multi-precision
integers is fairly easy. And once you have that doing it for rationals
is basically free. Likewise promoting an Integer up to rational is
trivial and vice versa. But promotion (or demotion) between IEEE floats
and rationals i
From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 22:08:10 -0400
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:15:57 -0500
. . .
All of the mechanisms I've been able to find in Parrot for
converting an arbitrary PMC to a num
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 10:08:10PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
> Hmm. My instinct would be to rely on MMD:
>
> .sub 'infix:*' :multi(Perl6Array,_)
> .param pmc a
> .param pmc b
> $P0 = new 'Integer'
> $P0 = a
> .return 'infix:*'($P0, b)
>
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Correct. I suspect that eventually the Rakudo developers will have
to develop a custom set of PMCs for Perl 6 behaviors rather than
relying on the Parrot ones.
I think it would be better for things like unlimited-precision integers and
rationals to be Parrot generic
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:15:57 -0500
One of the big problems with Parrot's n_* opcodes is that they
often assume that the type of the result should be the same as
the type of the first operand . . .
I kinda thought it wouldn't be that
On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 05:09:47PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote:
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>From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:41:22 -0500
>
>On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:47:38PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:3
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:41:22 -0500
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:47:38PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the
>
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:47:38PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the
> : docs say "Perl 6 intrinsically supports big integers and rationals
> : through its system of type d
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of "Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:06:18 EDT." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Larry Wall wrote:
>> The status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6 is fine. It's rakudo that
>> doesn't do so well. :)
>>
>> As another datapoint:
>>
>> $ pugs -e 'say 2**40'
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