At 9:57 PM -0700 1/4/07, Doug McNutt wrote:
At 18:23 -0800 1/4/07, Dave Whipp wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote:
For example, the extra space of putting them aside will let us
expand them to make them more thorough, such as dealing well with
exact vs inexact, fixed vs infinite length, fuzzy or inter
At 18:23 -0800 1/4/07, Dave Whipp wrote:
>Darren Duncan wrote:
>
>>For example, the extra space of putting them aside will let us expand them to
>>make them more thorough, such as dealing well with exact vs inexact, fixed vs
>>infinite length, fuzzy or interval based vs not, caring about sigfigs
Darren Duncan wrote:
For example, the extra space of putting them aside will let us expand
them to make them more thorough, such as dealing well with exact vs
inexact, fixed vs infinite length, fuzzy or interval based vs not,
caring about sigfigs or not, real vs complex vs quaternon, etc.
I
I'm going to offer a bit of clarification to my earlier comment,
since some of it was misinterpreted.
First, what I'm proposing is not intended to affect the
machine-native types at all; the proposal is strictly concerning the
boxed types.
Second, I was not suggesting that all non-integer nu
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:32:11AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: >Eg, are non-integer numbers used anywhere to implement any of: the
: >meta-model, grammars and parsing, control flow, generic collection
: >types, input and output, whatever? AFAIK, those are mainly
: >implemented with booleans, integ
On 1/4/07, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It occurs to me that, while they still need privileged support in
Perl 6 the language, non-integer numbers aren't actually all that
important as far as implementing the language core goes.
Well, that's true to an extent. It's also true that w
I just had a thought, which may or may not help this discussion along.
It occurs to me that, while they still need privileged support in
Perl 6 the language, non-integer numbers aren't actually all that
important as far as implementing the language core goes.
That is, I consider non-integers
