*fixed points

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 22:35, Justin Paston-Cooper
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The fixed point of a function is a well-defined concept.
>
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 22:21, Hauke Rehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > There’s no sane way of talking about a “derivative of >”
> >
> > You said it shouldn’t concern itself with functions
> > meant for dealing with boxed arguments, which > is an
> > example of. If you’re not willing to state your numeric
> > function in terms of functions dealing with numeric
> > arguments only, you should be blamed.
> >
> > There is ].
> > This is not by design meant for boxed-only arguments.
> >
> > >3 works only as a convenience. Semantically, it’s crap.
> > I think it should be undefined behaviour officially.
> > Open to be changed to produce an error without notice.
> >
> > Don’t misunderstand me: I like using &.> and the like.
> > But I think it’s working against intended semantics
> > and always consider using > on unboxed arguments a hack.
> >
> > Am 16.01.21 um 20:12 schrieb Raul Miller:
> > >    >3
> > > 3
> > >
> >
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