Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:20:42AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>> 2) Opcode variants with mixed arguments >> >> Honestly >> >> acos Nx, Iy >> >> and tons of other such opcodes are just overkill. > Heck, why do we even have transcendental maths ops that take integer > arguments or return integer results? We have only the former. Returning integers would be still more silly. > ... Can't we kill the lot? Well, sure. But: $ tail -1 ops/ops.num get_repr_s_p 1532 We've additionally ~50 unblessed opcodes in experimental.ops. Now tossing just the integer variants of these transcendentals reduces the opcode count by 50. > For everything that's intrinsically a function on real numbers, just take > have N and P register variants. Ehem, that increaes the opcode count. And how do you override an opcode? What about: $P0 = new Complex $P0 = "1 + 2i" $P1 = sin $P0 # now what I've shown a way to get rid of all these function-like opcodes. use overload 'sin' => \&my_sin; becomes trivial then. 'sin' is a method call, always. And there is of course Python: r = math.sin(s) > Nicholas Clark leo
