Re: assorted questions

2004-10-25 Thread Luke Palmer
Rich Morin writes: > In any case, one way of doing something like this in Perl might > be to have the ability to register exceptions for a range of > quite ordinary behavior, such as entering or leaving a statement, > setting or even accessing a variable, etc. Or passing a variable to a function.

Re: assorted questions

2004-10-25 Thread Austin Hastings
Rich Morin wrote: On a vaguely-related topic, I am reminded of another friend's desire to be able to redefine floating point values as quartets of values. Each operation would then be done using all possible rounding options (in the IEEE standard) and the results checked for "significant" variatio