[Circle-dev] Tangence Types

[Kiyoshi Aman]

Hi folks.

I've been looking at data types lately and wondering why we don't have
a float/double type. It seems a strange oversight to me, if that's
what it really is.

Also, I've been wondering if it would be feasible to support
BER-encoded integers, since that would enable integer types to be as
long as needed, and thusly eliminate the need for code to shoehorn
integers into fixed sizes.

That's about it for now (although I've been pondering an 'index'
type...) on the type front.

Classes seem to work really well for dimensions, as an aside; will
share the results of my tinkering there eventually.

(Incidentally, I've implemented a Pythonic take on Perl's 'scalar'
type, mostly out of boredom. I don't really see why anyone would need
it, though, in a language that has tuples.)