Clay language

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Many good examples do prove a ton though. Just off the top of my head:
> 
> - complex numbers
	Multiplication and division are different from each other and from
addition and subtraction.

> - checked integers
> - checked floating point numbers
> - ranged/constrained numbers
	More or less the same case, so I'm not sure that they make three.
Other than that agreed.

> - big int
> - big float
> - matrices and vectors
> - dimensional analysis (SI units)
> - rational numbers
> - fixed-point numbers
	For all of those, multiplication and division are different from
each other and from addition and subtraction.

	So what your examples do is actually prove *Steven's* point: most
of the time, the code is not shared between operators.

		Jerome
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