Regarding `Number` or `Numeric`: Does everything in Arithmetic apply to complex numbers and do we want it to? The bitwise stuff is where I think that there might be a mismatch.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution < swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > on Sun Jan 15 2017, Stephen Canon <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > > Responding to the thread in general here, not so much any specific email: > > > > “Arithmetic” at present is not a mathematically-precise concept, and > > it may be a mistake to make it be one[1]; it’s a > > mathematically-slightly-fuzzy “number” protocol. > > > In that case, should we consider renaming it to “Numeric” or even > “Number?” That would at least remove the question about how to > pronounce it. > > > -- > -Dave > > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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