Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-28 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
On Thursday, 27. August 2009 23:58:51 Jon Lang wrote: > It might also be nice to have a stringifying version; perhaps 'be', > using the same "everything's an acronym" naming convention used by > other stringifying operators (e.g., 'lt' is "less than", 'le' is 'less > than or equal to', 'leg' is "le

Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-28 Thread James Cloos
> "Michael" == Michael Zedeler writes: Michael> The Range 1.0001 .. 2.15 makes sense as an interval definition, but Michael> there can hardly be a useful list definition without defining a step Michael> size, at least, making it possible to use step sizes less than one. >> >> The obvious (de

r28098 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-08-28 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-08-28 17:41:35 +0200 (Fri, 28 Aug 2009) New Revision: 28098 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] qualify "longer" to mean graphemes for pmichaud++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod ===

Re: 1.23 becomes Rat (Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects)

2009-08-28 Thread James Cloos
> "Karl" == Karl Brodowsky writes: Karl> - or should there be a new numeric type similar to Rat that is always Karl> having powers of 10 as denominator (like BigDecimal in Java or Karl> LongDecimal for Ruby or decimal in C# or so)? If so, please use something compatable with ieee 754 decima