Clay language

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/30/10 1:15 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" 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.

That's where the flexibility of grouping really helps:  Let's also not 
forget about things such as unary + and -.

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

I thought these examples effectively settle the matter.


Andrei