On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 10:51:39AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:40:12AM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> > r30155:
> > $ ./perl6 -e '//'
> > Syntax error at line 1, near "//"
> >
> > Could be something nicer, in line with "The empty pattern is now
> > illegal." from S05.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> We could go as far as to guarantee that Nums do rational arithmetic
> out to a certain point, but probably what the financial insitutions
> want is special fixed-point types that assume a divisor anyway.
> Would any financial institution
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> There seems to be a thorough confusion about numeric types. for example
> some tests read like this: is (1.1).WHAT, 'Num'; and then in a different
> file is (1.1).WHAT, 'Rat'; That raises two questions for me
> 1) should we test for the
