Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 06:43:35PM +, David Mitchell wrote: * do values ever get demoted - eg an expression inolving bigints that evaluates to 0: should this be returned as an int or a bigint? [I may have mailed this already] Experimentation on perl5 says yes. Making the sv_setuv actually

Re: Opcodes (was Re: The external interface for the parser piece)

2000-12-13 Thread David Mitchell
Nick Ing-Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is a Language and not an internals issue - Larry will tell us. But I suspect the answer is that it should "work" without any special stuff for simple perl5-ish types - because you need to be able to translate 98% of 98% of perl5 programs.