Re: Questions about floating numbers, rethink and bug report

[Marius Vollmer]

Keith Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> Why do we need eleven different prefix letters for different types of
> uniform vector anyway?

Right.  Uniform vectors need to be moved out, the place cleaned up,
and then they can come in again, when they have learned to behave.

I wouldn't make them automatic, as you suggest, or even deduce the
type of literals from the contents, but the prototype stuff _is_
goofy.  We can just take `#u' and then dispatch on the next char.
Like, `#ut' means boolean (bi_t_), `#ub' is 8-bit numbers, `#us' is
16-bit, and so on.