Re: 122 (v1): types and structures

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol")
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Corbin wrote:
> 
>  "int" and "float", vary greatly per
> machine, though I believe ALL the numeric types can vary from one
> machine to another.


not _SPECIFYING_ just DECLARING.

I imagine we'd default to "use native" for the internals
of what the types meant, but "use java" would be one possible
available variant, and so on.

And also that structure definitions such as they might become
can be given to the pack and unpack functions, producing something
well defined.
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