On Sat, 4 May 2002, Brent Dax wrote:
> Melvin Smith:
> # I have a patch almost complete that makes Parrot handle
> # bytecode files across platforms (does endian and wordsize
> # transform), but there is one glaring non-portability, and
> # that is that we are storing floating point constants in native format.
> #
> # We need to discuss how we want to portably store these (I
> # propose as a string) so I can finish up this patch.
>
> atof()able string. Now finish the patch. ;^)
You may want to review perl5's whole atof family of functions
before going down that route. And that's only the reading half. The
writing half is even scarier.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
