At 5:12 AM +0200 on 6/19/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>Anthony,
>
> HC has "pi". Better stick with that. Also, � is not supported on all
>platforms. We can't use it.
� is in addition to pi. Stacks would have their character set stored with
them, and we'd need to do some conversion.
>
>>But I wonder if predefined varaibles are sensible?
>
> You mean, make "pi" and "e" variables which can be set in any script, but
>default to the values of � and e? This would be a workaround.
Yes, and it would allow a massive proliferation of constants.
>You could
>also special-case these constants so that they return a constant value if
>there is no local variable of this name, but else get compiled as a
>variable. That would mean, make variables override any language keywords.
Yeh, but this requires running the parser multiple times and further
hacking the lexical analyzer.
>
>Cheers,
>-- M. Uli Kusterer
>
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