Clay language

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On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 21:15:30 +0200, Jérôme M. Berger <jeberger at free.fr>  
wrote:

> 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

First, most of these don't even have a division operator defined in math.
Second, you prove Andrei's point, not the other way around, since it makes  
the generic case easier, particular case harder.

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