Inline::BC

Copyright (c) 2002 Piers Harding.
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:

1. the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any later version, or
2. the "Artistic License" Please be mindful of the terms and conditions of the Gnu bc source code itself, as this is covered by a seperate License. The Gnu bc source code associated with Inline::BC is found in the mylib/ directory of this distibution.

Inline::BC is an ILSM (Inline Support Language Module ) for Gnu bc, the arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Inline::BC - like other ILSMs - allows you compile (well - render to byte code ), and run Gnu bc code within your Perl program.

From the Gnu BC README:

bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.

This version was written to be a POSIX compliant bc processor with several extensions to the draft standard. Option flags are available to cause warning or rejection of the extensions to the POSIX standard. For those who want only POSIX bc with no extensions, a grammar is provided for exactly the language described in the POSIX document. The grammar (sbc.y) comes from the POSIX document. The Makefile contains rules to make sbc. (for Standard BC)

"end of quote"

Further documentation about Gnu bc can be found at: http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/bc.html http://www.gnu.org/manual/bc/html_mono/bc.html

To build you first need to install Inline ( and Inline::C ), and the do the usual:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Dance.

for more details:

perldoc Inline::BC

and

man bc

Piers Harding - piers@cpan.org
Somewhere arround: Fri Oct 18 07:47:29 BST 2002