On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Supporting multiple levels of infinities, transfinite numbers or even >> Surreal Numbers should be considered in the same category of features as >> returning multiple answers from complex trig functions. >> >> They're an interesting thing to discuss and experiment with but shouldn't >> distract form getting Perl 6 out the door. Let's just make sure we're >> handling inf and -inf right and leave all that other stuff until later. > > +1
Agreed. Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that because a general-purpose programming language necessarily does arithmetic, it is also a domain-specific language for mathematics. I agree that we should try not to make it too hard to layer such language into Perl6, but I see no point in bending over backwards to make it particularly easy compared to other domain-specific languages... -- Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
