On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Thomas Bushnell BSG <t...@becket.net> wrote:
> There's no need to implement everything at once... > > In this case, I'm saying that rather than accept the *wrong* argument > (inexact integers), we have a need for larger exact integers than we can > support at present, and the right thing to do is add larger exact > integers, not allow a function which should accept only exact integers > to start taking inexact ones. > This is a dynamic and pragmatic language. If we were going for a type-safe statically compiled language I'd tend to agree. But in a dynamic language, this simple fix will allow problems to be solved (dealing with large files) in a fast (both in performance, and in time to get in the compiler) with little lost, and only in idealism. Indy
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