On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 3:10 AM sisyphus <sisyphus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is this a bug that I ought to report ?
I'm not yet convinced the issues you showed are classifiable as bugs. Part of my reasoning for my conservatism is per the guidance Larry provided in the design docs. In particular, per design doc S02: > num native floating point > Num number (approximate Real, generally via floating point) Your focus is, aiui, floating point numbers, and Raku handling them as exact doubles, not approximate Reals. As such I think we should switch our focus to `num` for a while, not `Num`, and to initializing `num` variables from `int`s, not `Int`s: my int $i = ...; my num $n = $i; Also, maybe search for 'float' and 'num ' in these documents and read what Larry had to say: * https://design.raku.org/S02.html * https://design.raku.org/S03.html Also, maybe check out roast. A search for 'float' suggests these two as the ones that at first glance seem most worth looking at: * https://github.com/Raku/roast/blob/master/S03-operators/basic-types.t * https://github.com/Raku/roast/blob/master/S03-operators/overflow.t ---- I hope to get time to respond to your earlier posts this weekend. -- ralph
