On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:48:28 -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: > - for the "left overshift" the best option would be the one we cannot > take, that is, go bigint > - since we cannot do the best, just going zero is the next best option Why not NaN or Inf? > - for the "right overshift", going zero is the most natural (and > mirrors the above choice for "left overshift") -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.21 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next