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: TimToady 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

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: 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