[bitc-dev] Overloading arithmetic

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

OK. That sounds compelling.

Hot damn. A lexical syntax decision managed to get decided in only 17
emails!  :-)

shap

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Geoffrey Irving <irving at naml.us> wrote:

> I'm strongly in favor of + for both.  I've written numerical code in
> ocaml, and +. is a minor but significant irritant both to write and to
> read.  I would actually go so far as to say that it's one of my
> biggest complaints about ocaml, other than lack of packed storage,
> etc. (I spend a lot of time writing numerical formulas).
>
> If you are trying to verify that a given numerical calculation is
> correct, you are going to spend the first half second realizing it is
> in floating point and the next several hours analyzing all the
> possible singularities looking for precision loss, so making the
> second part easier on the eyes is important.
>
> Geoffrey
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