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On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 12:00:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the interpreter > > assembly language. I've got: > > > > sin, cos, tan : Plain ones > > asin, acos, atan : arc-whatevers > > shinh, cosh, tanh : Hyperbolic whatevers > > log2, log10, log : Base 2, base 10, and explicit base logarithms > > pow : Raise x to the y power > > > > Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while since I've > > done numeric work. > > FWIW, it's just dawned on me that if we want all of these things to be > overloadable by PMCs, they need to have vtable entries. The PMC vtable > is going to be considerably bigger than we anticipated. Does that mean that opcodes like these are just going to call functions pointed to by vtable entries (that is, not have a 'default implementation')? It makes more sense to me to just have these functions act on numbers (like float and bigfloat), and auto-numify like Perl 5 does. Forgive me if I am missing something (I usually am :). - D <dmlloyd@tds.net>Thread Previous | Thread Next