On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:17:32 -0500, Ellery Newcomer
<ellery-newco...@utulsa.edu> wrote:
On 02/15/2010 09:15 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
For example, there is no possible way a person unfamiliar with computers
(and most programmers who have not run into this) would believe that
b = 5;
a = -b;
Tell any math major that fixnum arithmetic is really just arithmetic
modulo 2^32 and they would believe you, even if they had never heard of
computers
But you don't designate it as such. If it was required to designate
modulo 32 in the expression, then it would be fine with me. I went
through Calc V and never really had to worry about this. Advanced
mathematicians are not a model for the everyday programmer :)
Even if you explain it to people, they still forget! It's the same as !=
null was.
-Steve
