On 02/12/2011 09:44 AM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote:
spir wrote:
On 02/12/2011 03:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
While iota isn't clear, it _does_ have the advantage that you're
not going to _mis_understand
Maybe you say this because iota does not mean anything for you (?). I
can easily imagine various appropriate uses of iota in a PL, like:
* smallest representable value in a given numeric format
* threshold over which some measure should be taken into account
* threshold under which some difference should be ignored
* range for approximate equality (approxEquals: |x - y|< iota)
* tolerance interval of technical measures (similar)
* ...what else?
Range with a single element (i.e the smallest non-empty range).
Which is actually how I interpreted “iota” the first time I saw it
(since it was obvious from the context that it was a range).
Makes sense for me as well.
Denis
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