Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:38 PM 3/2/2001 -0800, Hong Zhang wrote:
> > I was hoping to get us something that was guaranteed to hold an integer,
>no
> > matter what it was, so you could do something like:
> >
> >    struct thingie {
> >       UV type;
> >       INT my_int;
> >    }
>
>What is the purpose of doing this?

At this point none, since I've seen the error of my ways and have stricken 
that bit from the PDD. :) I was thinking it would be useful for code that 
needed to operate on bare perl integers, but that thought wasn't fully 
thought out.


                                        Dan

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