Large integers, ** and Int

[Aaron Sherman]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Moritz Lenz <moritz at faui2k3.org> wrote:

> Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > I did eventually discover that I needed to do this. The problem then
> > became that I can't reliably get exporting an infix:<+> operator from a
> > module to work.
>
> When you try, make sure to declare it as 'our', since Rakudo doesn't
> fully handle lexical exports yet.
>
> # probably also needs type constraints
> our multi sub infix:<+>($a, $b) is export {
>    # your code here
> }
>

This is what my signature looks like right now (I've re-named my module
BigTest just to avoid confusion while I develop):

 our multi sub infix:<+>(BigTest $lhs, BigTest $rhs) is export {
        return BigTest.new(:value(Q:PIR {
          ...
        };
}

When I "use" that file, and try to add:

./perl6 -e 'use BigTest; my BigTest $i .=
new(:value("1000000000000000000000000")); $i = $i + $i; say $i'

I get:

Type check failed for assignment
  in '&infix:<=>' at line 1
  in main program body at line 1

If I comment out the Numeric method in my class, then that error changes to:

Can't take numeric value for object of type BigTest
  in 'Any::Numeric' at line 1339:CORE.setting
  in 'infix:<+>' at line 6752:CORE.setting
  in main program body at line 1

So it looks like it's just totally unwilling to try to use that inline:<+>
that I've defined, and instead is dead-set on trying to convert my BigTest
to a Numeric in order to match an alternate signature.

-- 
Aaron Sherman
Email or GTalk: ajs at ajs.com
http://www.ajs.com/~ajs
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