Re: Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentative list of vtable functions]

2000-10-25 Thread Ken Fox
David Mitchell wrote: Well, I was assuming that there would be *a* numeric class in scope - as defined be the innermost lexical 'use foo'. And that numeric class would remove int and num from the scope? I assumed that Perl wouldn't be clever enough to know about all available numberic types

Re: Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentative list of vtable functions]

2000-10-24 Thread David Mitchell
Ken Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Mitchell wrote: Now of course if we have the luxury of deciding that core perl 'knows' about complex numbers, then of the parser can be made to recognise ... The core doesn't need to know -- that was my point. All the core needs is the basic

Re: Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentative list of vtable functions]

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:34 PM 10/24/00 +0100, David Mitchell wrote: Ken Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Mitchell wrote: Now of course if we have the luxury of deciding that core perl 'knows' about complex numbers, then of the parser can be made to recognise ... The core doesn't need to know -- that

Special syntax for numeric constants [Was: A tentative list of vtable functions]

2000-10-18 Thread Ken Fox
David Mitchell wrote: Now of course if we have the luxury of deciding that core perl 'knows' about complex numbers, then of the parser can be made to recognise ... The core doesn't need to know -- that was my point. All the core needs is the basic constant folding rules _it_already_has_