[REBOL] Re: SKIP with *very* large values
From: carl:cybercraft at: 18-May-2002 16:55
On 18-May-02, Romano Paolo Tenca wrote:
> Hi,
>>> bug, to feedback?
>>
>> Definately bugged...
> Skip and others functions accept a number! datatype.
> I don't find any documentation about this datatype in Core.
> Where is it? Or it does not exist?
It's a type of meta-datatype (there's no doubt a correct term:) that
can refer to a group of specific datatypes in the same way the
series! datatype refers to string, blocks and so on. Thus integer!
and decimal! datatypes are both also number! datatypes...
>> a: 1
== 1
>> type? a
== integer!
>> b: 1.1
== 1.1
>> type? b
== decimal!
>> decimal? a
== false
>> integer? b
== false
>> number? a
== true
>> number? b
== true
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Carl Read