Re: r28881 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[Eirik Berg Hanssen]

pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes:

> +1.1 == 11/100# True

  New math? :)


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r28881 - docs/Perl6/Spec

[pugs-commits]

Author: lwall
Date: 2009-10-22 17:55:21 +0200 (Thu, 22 Oct 2009)
New Revision: 28881

Modified:
   docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
[S02] document desire to have decimal literals biased toward Rat storage


Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
===
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod2009-10-22 15:31:38 UTC (rev 28880)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod2009-10-22 15:55:21 UTC (rev 28881)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 Created: 10 Aug 2004
 
 Last Modified: 22 Oct 2009
-Version: 184
+Version: 185
 
 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale
 lexical items and typological issues.  (These Synopses also contain
@@ -2694,6 +2694,12 @@
 
 ((1 / 2) * 3) / 4
 
+Decimal fractions not using "e" notation are also stored as C values:
+
+6.02e23.WHAT # Num
+1.23456.WHAT # Rat
+1.1 == 11/100# True
+
 =item *
 
 Complex literals are similarly indicated by writing an addition of