Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
So, the concrete use-case I'm thinking of here is currency. Darren Duncan wrote: [2] Num should have an optional limit on the number of decimal places it remembers, like NUMERIC in SQL, but that's a simple truncation. I disagree. For starters, any limit built into a type definition

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14586 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread Jon Lang
Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:19:42PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Log: : Add missing series operator, mostly for readability. : : Is there a way for the continuing function to access its index as well : as, or instead of, the values of one or more

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14586 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:09:55AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:19:42PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Log: : : Add missing series operator, mostly for readability. : : : : Is there a way for the continuing function to

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14588 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Oct 6 18:15:17 2008 New Revision: 14588 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Added ~ twiddle macro to make it easier to write bracketing constructs. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod