On 5/23/05, Edward Peschko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They have the intent (Alan Eliasen has the intent) of implementing 'intervals' > which match fuzzy values where you know an approximate extent of the value, > but > not the value itself. E.g > > (.5 ... .75) * (.5 ... .8) == (.25 ... .6) > > Given that frink values can have units like gallons or pounds, and they > intend on > tracking accuracy inside of intervals, with different distributions, this is > especially powerful. > > Is there the intent to have intervals in perl6, or would it be better just to > port frink to parrot and be done with it?
I think this is best left up to frink or CPAN (or a frink interface on CPAN). Interval arithmetic looks nice at first, but can get subtle when dealing with powers, and insane when dealing with functions like "sin". Luke
