[perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-10-15 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed Sep 24 22:31:36 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:37:09 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: +1 in favor of applying this patch (and updating any tests to match) -- this will _really_ improve things for PCT and Rakudo. Thanks! Applied as r31402. -- c This

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-24 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 21:37:09 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: +1 in favor of applying this patch (and updating any tests to match) -- this will _really_ improve things for PCT and Rakudo. Thanks! Applied as r31402. -- c

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-23 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:13:30 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we often need to convert a Float value into an equivalent representation for PIR. Unfortunately, all of the mechanisms I've looked at for doing this lose a

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 08:47:15PM -0700, chromatic wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2008 06:13:30 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we often need to convert a Float value into an equivalent representation for PIR. Unfortunately,

[perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59006] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59006 When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we often need to

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59006] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: