Comments on: Math::BigInt

By: colomon

colomon — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:26:39 +0000

I’ve actually taken sorear++’s suggestion (on #perl6) of postfix L, since it already has the connotation of “long int” from other languages — these are just arbitrarily long ints!

By: SR

SR — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:08:40 +0000

…although now that I look at that, it would be difficult when writing the literal in hex. E.g., 0x1B = ?
Maybe a (B) in parenthesis? my $bigint = 1(B) ?
Are you allowed to make up syntax like that?

By: SR

SR — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:06:31 +0000

Re: “Clearly then, I need to figure out a symbol to use…”
How about a capital B at the end if the number literal, kind of like the way L, F, or D is used in some languages to force a long, float, or double literal?
my @powers-of-two := 1B, **2 … *;