At 10:38 PM +0100 10/14/02, Leon Brocard wrote:
>Michael G Schwern sent the following bits through the ether:
>
>> Someone [1] wanted to know if 1/0 would produce a divide by zero
>> error in Perl 6, or if it would return a value representing an
>> indeterminate result (undef?)
>
>This is probably the mathematician in me escaping, but I also remember
>a discussion at Y::E about number systems. What if you didn't want
>Perl to use the "normal" number system, but instead only have, say,
>positive integers, or integers modulo prime P. This is possible with
>Perl 5, but with lots of scary overloading. Will it be any different
>in Perl 6? [Or are we not quite there yet?]
I expect the overloading will be just as pervasive, though perhaps
not as scary as in perl 5. (I suppose you could just go override the
vtable methods for all the core data types... :)
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