Re: Int/Rat max precision (was Re: r28882 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2009-10-27 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
HaloO, On Friday, 23. October 2009 02:27:00 Darren Duncan wrote: Thinking further, my interpretation of what you said above is that the Rational role is now basically saying that a number is represented in terms of numerator/denominator and that certain operators are supported, but now it is

r28921 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-10-27 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-10-27 19:38:55 +0100 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009) New Revision: 28921 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] make 1 2 3 literals more allomorphic Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === ---

Re: Int/Rat max precision (was Re: r28882 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2009-10-27 Thread Darren Duncan
I agree with TSa's comments in general. Make Int and Rat the roles, and people who don't care about precision-affected semantics can invoke those. Let the longer names be for the implementing classes, invoked directly by people who do care about precision-affected semantics. -- Darren Duncan