Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl > 6 > : intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type > : declarations. Int automatically supports p

Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl 6 : intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type : declarations. Int automatically supports promotion to arbitrary precisi

Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl 6 intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type declarations. Int automatically supports promotion to arbitrary precision" but it looks like it's doing the same thing as Perl 5. $ ./perl6 -e

Re: globs and rules and trees, oh my! (was: Re: XPath grammars (Was: Re: globs and trees in Perl6))

2008-10-03 Thread Jon Lang
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >> note to treematching folks: it is envisaged that signatures in >> a rule will match nodes in a tree >> >>My question is, how is this expected to work? Can someone give an >> example? > >I'm assuming that this relates to Jon Lang's comment about using >