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Re: assorted questions

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From:
Austin Hastings
Date:
October 25, 2004 05:03
Subject:
Re: assorted questions
Message ID:
417CEB9C.9050905@Yahoo.com
Rich Morin wrote:

> On a vaguely-related topic, I am reminded of another friend's
> desire to be able to redefine floating point values as quartets
> of values.  Each operation would then be done using all possible
> rounding options (in the IEEE standard) and the results checked
> for "significant" variations.  If anyone knows of a cute way to
> do this in Perl 6, I'd be happy to hear about it...

Implement an opaque object whose value, when fetched, is a junction.

=Austin


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