Nicholas Clark wrote:
[ PerlUndef vs int vs num ]
> If I understand things correctly, all the parrot ops dealing in integer
> registers keep the result in integer registers, floating point in floating
> point registers. By default the perl6 language will carry on treating
> numbers as "numbers"
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:57:07AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 03:18, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> > Brent Dax wrote:
> >
> > > Aaron Sherman:
> > > sub abs($num is int){ return $num>=0 ?? $num :: -$num }
> > > ^
> > > I believe that should be (int $num)
(Sorry for responding to my own post, and on a tangential point at that,
but...)
In a message dated Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Trey Harris writes:
> In a message dated Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Luke Palmer writes:
> > Why would bitwise have anything but integer signatures. What does
> > 4.56 | 2.81 mean? Also, s
In a message dated Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Luke Palmer writes:
> Why would bitwise have anything but integer signatures. What does
> 4.56 | 2.81 mean? Also, should perl lossily convert real to int, or give
> an error if it can't?
Seems to me that that's a decision that has to be made for each function
On 5 Sep 2002, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 01:47, Brent Dax wrote:
> > Aaron Sherman:
>
> > The one thing I notice all over the place is:
> >
> > sub abs($num is int){ return $num>=0 ?? $num :: -$num }
>
> Another thing I'm not sure on... how do you force numeric, but not
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 03:18, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Brent Dax wrote:
>
> > Aaron Sherman:
> > sub abs($num is int){ return $num>=0 ?? $num :: -$num }
> >^
> > I believe that should be (int $num).
>
>
> and there is a »abs« in core.ops.
I'll remove that then, and r
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 01:47, Brent Dax wrote:
> Aaron Sherman:
> The one thing I notice all over the place is:
>
> sub abs($num is int){ return $num>=0 ?? $num :: -$num }
Another thing I'm not sure on... how do you force numeric, but not
integer typing on a parameter? Is that C or C<+$var
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 01:47, Brent Dax wrote:
> Aaron Sherman:
> # Ok, so without knowing what the XS-replacement will look like
> # and without knowing what we're doing with
> # filehandle-functions (is tell() staying or does it get
> # removed in favor of $fh.tell()) and a whole lot of other
Brent Dax wrote:
> Aaron Sherman:
> sub abs($num is int){ return $num>=0 ?? $num :: -$num }
> ^
> I believe that should be (int $num).
and there is a »abs« in core.ops.
Anyway, before implementing a bunch of builtins, it should be organized
a little, where they
Aaron Sherman:
# Ok, so without knowing what the XS-replacement will look like
# and without knowing what we're doing with
# filehandle-functions (is tell() staying or does it get
# removed in favor of $fh.tell()) and a whole lot of other
I think that sort of thing is going. IIRC, the only b
Oh, BTW: Lest anyone think I'm spamming p6l for no reason, I sent the
Builtins.p6m to p6l instead of p6i because I consider this a document,
not code. When some of the questions get ironed out about the language,
then I will talk to p6i about next steps.
Ok, so without knowing what the XS-replacement will look like and
without knowing what we're doing with filehandle-functions (is tell()
staying or does it get removed in favor of $fh.tell()) and a whole lot
of other stuff it's impossible to translate all of the Perl 5 functions
to Perl 6. However,
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