on Fri Jun 24 2016, Brent Royal-Gordon <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>> I don't have anything else to add to the concerns that have already > been discussed, but I would like to reiterate on the fact that having > the ,absoluteValue, property but without substituting 'abs' will > induce a lot of programers to use it anyway and make mistakes. > > `FloatingPoint` seems to have a similar concept to `absoluteValue` > that's called "magnitude", although there's no actual `magnitude` > property. Would that be a better name for this concept? That's not a terrible idea. :-) > And if so, should it be on `Arithmetic`? I don't think the > `FloatingPoint` spec actually specifies how absolute values should be > handled (for that matter, I don't think this one does either), and > currently it seems to come out of an `AbsoluteValuable` protocol that > I haven't seen mentioned in either the Integer or FloatingPoint > proposals. Yes, that protocol should die as part of this. -- Dave _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list swift-evolution@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
