Re: Literals, take 2

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 06:38:08PM +0000, Andrew Wilson wrote:
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>>On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 07:26:06PM +0100, Angel Faus wrote:
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>>>For example, the integer 30 can be written in hexadecimal base in two 
>>>equivalent ways:
>>>
>>>  my $x = 16:1D
>>>  my $x = 16:1.14
>>>
>>>These two representations are incompatible, so writing something like 
>>>C<16:D.13> will generate a compile-time error.
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>>So, can we specify floats in other bases?  
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>Why would you want to?
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>-Scott
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Well, why would you want a float in any radix?
To represent a fractional part of a whole digit in
that radix, of course.  If different radii are going
to be supported, I think its best to at least
support them fully.  For instance, what would
happen if you did this without floating point
support for different radii?

my $x = 16: 6;
my $y = 16: C;
my $z = $x/$y;
# $z should equal 6/C, aka 16: 0.8