Printing shortest decimal form of floating point number with Mir

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 23:08:31 UTC 2021


On Monday, 4 January 2021 at 22:55:28 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> "BarInt", "Bar!int" and "Foo!int" are all names, or labels, if 
> you wish. And they all refer to the same object: the nominal 
> type. Which you can test easily by using "is(BarInt==Foo!int)".


If the terminology is difficult, let' call them "signifiers". If 
D add type-functions, then another signifier for the same type 
could be "Combine(Foo,int)".

It should not matter which signifier you use, if they all yield 
the exact same object (in the mathematical sense): the same 
nominal type "struct _ {}", then they should be interchangeable 
with no semantic impact.

This is a very basic concept in PL design. If you name the same 
thing several ways (any way you like), then the effect should be 
the same if you swap one for another. It should be 
indistiguishable.



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