Re: Numeric literals, take 1

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 07:21  AM, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> NaN requires a pragma. As such, shouldn't documenting it be deferred 
> till later?

Yes, but not _too_ much later.  If C<NaN> isn't the default behavior, 
we have to document what _is_ the default behavior.  :-)  And if you 
need a pragma to enable C<NaN>, which in turn makes fundamental changes 
in how many Perl6 numeric types behave, we ought to document _both_ 
behaviors in the "Numerics" section.  Even if it's a standard pragma, 
it still may be a "basic feature" of Perl6 that needs documenting, and 
we should associate it with the other numeric behaviors.  (We can't 
quite go in Camel-book order, w.r.t. pragma and other toggles.)

But it's true, perl6-internals is talking about these issues right now. 
  So if we wait a bit, we can have a much more informed discussion.

MikeL