Yitzchak Gale writes:
Dan Piponi wrote:
The reusability of Num varies inversely with how many
assumptions you make about it.
A default implementation of pi would only increase usability,
not decrease it.
Suppose I believe you. (Actually, I am afraid, I have doubts.)
Can you provide some examples of this "increased usability"?
If possible, with a *relevant* context, which shows that PI should belong
by default to the class Floating (whatever we mean by that...)
Somehow I do not only think that the default implementation would be good
for nothing, but that putting PI into Floating as a class member, serves
nobody. I would be happy to learn that I am mistaken, but if it is just
to save 5 seconds of a person who wants to pass smoothly between floating
numbers of single and double precision...
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
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