Aug. 12, 2004
12:47 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 01:53:31PM -0700, Michael Chermside wrote:
But lots of languages make other choices. The number of languages that have a single numeric type is pretty large... perl comes to mind, but I bet I could list 10 others without too much trouble.
perl doesn't have a single numeric type. Depending on how deep you look into the issue, it has none (only a scalar type), or several (scalars that are assigned integers are integers until they are promoted to float when used floatishly). -- John Lenton (john@grulic.org.ar) -- Random fortune: What's so funny?